Trivium Pursuit Blog
More books teaching economics to children
Post may contain affiliate links to materials I recommend. Read my full disclosure statement. In a previous post I recommended these four important books in which your child will learn about the principles of liberty alongside the Tuttle Twins. The Tuttle Twins Learn...
More creative freedom and less formal lessons
Post may contain affiliate links to materials I recommend. Read my full disclosure statement. Wisdom for the day -- more creative freedom and less formal lessons. Read these to educate yourself on the topic of delayed formal academics. School Can Wait by Raymond and...
That glorious right hand which moulded the world can new-create my mind
Post may contain affiliate links to materials I recommend. Read my full disclosure statement. C.H. Spurgeon Morning And Evening (Daily Readings) January 6 Evening Now the hand of the Lord was upon me in the evening. Ezekiel 33:22 In the way of judgment this may be the...
Tom Woods gives a concise description of the Ron Paul Curriculum
Post may contain affiliate links to materials I recommend. Read my full disclosure statement. "Ron Paul considers this curriculum the capstone of his decades-long career in public life." Ron Paul Curriculum course creator and Mises Institute Senior Fellow Tom Woods...
My favorite video of all time — all the very best of Candid Camera
Post may contain affiliate links to materials I recommend. Read my full disclosure statement. Would you like to experience a two-hour belly laugh? My favorite video of all time -- all the very best of Candid Camera. Candid Camera: Greatest Moments
Farewell to Thomas Sowell and a recommended economics textbook
Post may contain affiliate links to materials I recommend. Read my full disclosure statement. Taken from Farewell to Thomas Sowell, Dean of Conservative Columnists by Ben Shapiro In what we can only hope is the final heartbreak of 2016, Senior Fellow at the Hoover...
Expose your kids to liberty, the free market, and the Constitution
Post may contain affiliate links to materials I recommend. Read my full disclosure statement. Would you like your young children exposed to the ideas of liberty, the free market, and the Constitution? Connor Boyack has written four books designed to bring home these...
Grandpa Reads Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims
Post may contain affiliate links to materials I recommend. Read my full disclosure statement. "...'The captain don't like passengers snooping' around his ship!' someone yelled behind us. We spun around and saw a sailor who wore an off-white long-sleeved shirt, a dingy...
Cellar of Affliction
The finest historical fiction
Post may contain affiliate links to materials I recommend. Read my full disclosure statement. I want to tell you about a book I read to my children many years ago. Allen French is the author, and I consider it one of my very favorites. It's called The Colonials: Being...
But you must have it both here and there
From The Crook In the Lot by Thomas Boston Will nothing please you but two heavens, one here, another hereafter? God has secured one heaven for the saints, one place where they shall get all their will, wish, and desire; where there shall be no weight on them to hold...
These are the toys they keep coming back to
Post may contain affiliate links to materials I recommend. Read my full disclosure statement. After five kids and five grands, these are the toys they keep coming back to. 1. Cash Register 2. Xylophone 3. Play-Doh 4. Pick-Up Sticks 5. Weaving Loom 6. Toy Doll House...
My 10 Most Fav Children’s Picture Books
Post may contain affiliate links to materials I recommend. Read my full disclosure statement. 1. The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge by Hildegarde H. Swift and Lynd Ward This is one of the great children's books, but one I didn't find until recently....
Logic — A Suggested Course of Study
Post may contain affiliate links to materials I recommend. Read my full disclosure statement. I am preparing to teach an introduction to logic course to my seventh graders this fall, and all four of them are excited about it. I have never taught logic, and all that I...
Logic and critical thinking are desperately needed in the prisons
Post may contain affiliate links to materials I recommend. Read my full disclosure statement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0m0KnwGVNc&feature=youtu.be Dear Bluedorns, Logic and critical thinking are desperately needed in the prisons. There are so many conspiracy...
Selling my beloved set of John Buchan
I'm selling my beloved set of John Buchan on Ebay. Hunting tower (pb) The House of the Four Winds (pb) The Island of Sheep (pb) The Blanket of the Dark (pb) John Macnab (pb) Castle Gay (pb) The Three Hostages (pb) Greenmantle (pb) Mr. Standfast (pb) The 39 Steps...
Free copies of all 3 volumes of our new art curriculum with purchase from Trivium Pursuit catalog
This week, if you make a purchase of $40 or more from the Trivium Pursuit catalog, you will receive all three volumes of our new art curriculum ebooks What Do You See? A Child's First Introduction to Art, upon request. After you place your order, be sure to email us...
The Brain, It’s Plain, Is Sprained If It Is Strained
Post may contain affiliate links to materials I recommend. Read my full disclosure statement. Taken from Endangered Minds: Why Children Don't Think And What We Can Do About It by Jane M. Healy [Page 66] [T]he axons, or output parts of [brain] neurons, gradually...
Dinesh D’Souza is brilliant!
Post may contain affiliate links to materials I recommend. Read my full disclosure statement. Watch Hillary's America. You'll be quite surprised at how much you like it. And here is my new favorite song.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk_w4fZQXhI
Use Movie Reviews as Teaching Tools for Reluctant Writers
Post may contain affiliate links to materials I recommend. Read my full disclosure statement. From the Ron Paul Curriculum Weekly Newsletter Do you remember how much you looked forward to writing book reports in your high school English classes? What's that? You...
Here’s the curriculum I would use if homeschooling today
Post may contain affiliate links to materials I recommend. Read my full disclosure statement. The Ron Paul Curriculum has everything in it that I wanted to teach my children ... and learn for myself. 26 Reasons to Adopt the Ron Paul Curriculum . . . and 4 Reasons Not...
An introductory text on linear thinking and logical fallacies
Post may contain affiliate links to materials I recommend. Read my full disclosure statement. The Fallacy Detective: Thirty-Eight Lessons on How to Recognize Bad Reasoning Reviewed by Paul Wilson 2012 National Nobel Distinguished Science Educator Former State Science...
Let it alone
They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. Romans 1:29 There is an old legend that tells of Hercules encountering a strange animal on a narrow road. He struck it with his...
Grandpa and Grammy helping
Post may contain affiliate links to materials I recommend. Read my full disclosure statement. Grandpa and Grammy are helping with this week's Five in a Row book. If you're homeschooling young children, you might want to look at Five in a Row. It wasn't around when my...
A Prescription for Anxiety
Philippians 4:4-9: A Prescription for Anxiety Translation and Comments by Harvey Bluedorn, from the Exegetical Translation (XT), a work in progress. I. Rejoicing in the Lord (4:4-5a) 4 {Keep on} ‡ rejoicing in the Lord at all times. Again I will say, {keep on} ‡...
New volumes in Trivium Pursuit’s art curriculum
Free art curriculum October 3-5 New volumes in Trivium Pursuit’s art curriculum — What Do You See? A Child’s First Introduction to Art Volumes One, Two, and Three These three ebooks can be purchased on Amazon Kindle for $2.99 each.... ....but, for three days only,...
Gentle and easy introduction to art appreciation for children
What Do You See? A Child's First Introduction to Art -- Volumes One, Two, and Three Buy two volumes and get the third free. A gentle and easy introduction to art appreciation for children, ages 4-12.
Ancient history excerpts — Remedies for head-ache and for wounds on the head
Pausanias (c. A.D. 143-176) Description of Greece 2.28.1 The serpents of Corinth The serpents, including a peculiar kind of a yellowish color, are considered sacred to Asclepius, and are tame with men. These are peculiar to Epidauria, and I have noticed that other...
A serpent of unprecedented length — interesting excerpts from Ancient Literature
Aulus Gellius (c. 125 – after 180 AD) -- A Roman whose only book, Attic Nights, is a compilation of notes on grammar, geometry, philosophy, history and many other subjects. Attic Nights Book 7, Chapter 3 An account, taken from the works of Tubero, of a serpent of...
Gardening in 2016
Thank you, Lord, for flowers.