CONTINUING IN THE WORD
Perspectives on Homeschooling and Classical Christian Education from Scholars Online
Category: Philosophy
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November 25: Isaac Watts
Today is the commemoration, in the Lutheran and Anglican traditions, of the death of Isaac Watts in 1748. Regardless of your religious persuasion, if you have been in the United States or Canada or Great Britain at Christmas, you’ve run into at least one of his many hymns, “Joy to the World”, in some form…
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The Rewards of Risk
‘I will take the Ring,’ he said, ‘though I do not know the way.’ — J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, “The Council of Elrond” Frodo setting off on a nearly hopeless trip to Mordor or the knight taking up the quest for the Holy Grail are, intentionally or not, setting out…
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The Joy of Failure
The best games make failure fun. In much of life, failure can be costly, even deadly. Games get to define what failure looks like. In games, the blows of failure are softened, so that the player is safe (more or less), but they are not eliminated. Games — and education — grant us a crucial opportunity…