Welcome. I\u2019m starting this blog in the hope of opening up further discussion on classical Christian education; as a channel of communication for things of central and peripheral interest to students, parents, and teachers at Scholars Online; and as an introduction to who we are to those who aren\u2019t already part of our community. I am a complete novice at the art of blogging and blog management, so I hope you\u2019ll bear with me as I learn my way around the block. Expect changes in the look and feel of it for a few days or a few weeks, while I get used to the various bells and whistles that WordPress affords.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve delayed starting a blog for some time, since the whole prospect seemed a little intimidating\u2014less because of the technical requirements than because of the expectation that I would have to update it fairly frequently, while swimming in the various other duties of teaching. But I’ve come to the conclusion that it can well be a useful tool for dissemination of information, addressing some of those frequently asked questions in a discursive way, and allowing readers to respond. We\u2019ll see where it goes.<\/p>\n
By way of introduction for anyone who has come this far without knowing quite why, let me say that I’m Bruce McMenomy; I teach Literature, Latin, and Greek with Scholars Online, and have been doing so for the last decade and a half—first through Scholars’ Online Academy, part of the Institute for Study of the Liberal Arts, and then, as of 2006, through the reorganized and independent Scholars Online<\/a>, a non-profit educational corporation my wife Christe and I founded separately in 2005. I do this work because it’s what I feel called to do. I have been fortunate enough to work with some of the finest students and finest teachers I have known, and I’m allowed to teach more or less what I want, in a way the works for me and for my students, without an excess of oversight or constraint.<\/p>\n I received my undergraduate degree from Pomona College, an M.A. in History, an M.A. in Classics, and a Ph.D. in Classics from UCLA. My wife and I homeschooled our three children, the eldest of whom is now herself a professor of Classics, currently at St. Olaf College in Minnesota. I strongly believe in a strong liberal arts education as the foundation for wider learning and problem-solving in every aspect of life.<\/p>\n I’m hoping we can have contributions here from a number of our Scholars Online teachers; I’d also like to see feedback from parents, students, and other interested parties. The ground rules are the same as otherwise at Scholars Online: we will insist on civility and charity. Feel free to disagree with ideas; we won’t support attacks on people — either here or elsewhere, present or past. <\/p>\n More later…<\/p>\n — Bruce McMenomy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Welcome. I\u2019m starting this blog in the hope of opening up further discussion on classical Christian education; as a channel of communication for things of central and peripheral interest to students, parents, and teachers at Scholars Online; and as an introduction to who we are to those who aren\u2019t already part of our community. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scholarsonline.org\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scholarsonline.org\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scholarsonline.org\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scholarsonline.org\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scholarsonline.org\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.scholarsonline.org\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.scholarsonline.org\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/3"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scholarsonline.org\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scholarsonline.org\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scholarsonline.org\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}