by trueendsblog | May 22, 2017 | Uncategorized
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...
by trueendsblog | May 17, 2017 | Uncategorized
The following is the letter I wrote to my graduating senior students, accompanying a copy of G.K. Chesterton’s poem, “The Ballad of the White Horse.” You are now at the end of your classical education at Granite. You have learned how to seek out and...
by trueendsblog | May 11, 2017 | Uncategorized
“By two at the latest I would be on the road. Not, except at rare intervals, with a friend. Walking and talking are two very great pleasures, but it is a mistake to combine them. Our own noise blots out the sounds and silences of the out-door world…The...
by trueendsblog | May 8, 2017 | Trivium
In Surprised by Joy, Lewis shares what he believes to be the ideal schedule for the student. He derives this pattern from the “routine” which he was accustomed to at an in-home boarding school where he was, in essence, homeschooled, along with a handful of...
by trueendsblog | Apr 14, 2017 | Trivium
For most of last month, I used excerpts from Letters to Children as the basis for some brief reflections in our morning chapel at Granite. Letters to Children is a compilation of C.S. Lewis’s correspondence with the young children to who wrote to him, usually...
