What Kind of Journey?

What Kind of Journey?

Our 2018-19 theme is journey. As educators, it’s important for us to really consider what kind of journey we want to take our students on. Of all the different journey metaphors we might hear regarding education, each of them connotes a wealth of ideas, only...
Seeing the Sun’s Reflection

Seeing the Sun’s Reflection

I had intended to return to Augustine’s “Steps to Wisdom” after the Christmas break, but a beautiful moment happened in one of my classes this week that I wanted to share before I go back to that series. In my 7th grade Omnibus class, in which we study the ancients...
Truth Incarnate

Truth Incarnate

In keeping with our 2017-18 school year theme, “Stand for Truth,” the tutorial-wide memory verse for the Advent season was John 1:14, “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father,...
Stand for Truth

Stand for Truth

At “Back to Granite Night” earlier this week I had the pleasure of introducing Granite’s theme for the 2017-2018 academic year: Stand for Truth. Our theme is inspired by none other than Martin Luther, who made the famous stand for biblical doctrines...
A Scholar’s Daily Schedule: Entertainment

A Scholar’s Daily Schedule: Entertainment

Tea should be taken in solitude…for eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably. Of course not all books are suitable for mealtime reading. It would be a kind of blasphemy to read poetry at table. What one wants is a gossipy, formless book which...
A Masterpiece

A Masterpiece

The following is the commencement address given to the Granite Classical class of 2017 by Mrs. Bethany Pautrat. To Mrs. Morton, The Granite Board, tutors, parents, family, friends, and graduates. It is an incredible honor to have the privilege of being here with the...