Category Archives: Education

Luke at Sonlight experiences homeschool disconnect in his class

Posted on Wednesday, November 16, 2011 by Dad

Luke Holzman over at the Sonlight Blog wrote a post about how he learned less about history in his traditional school than he did in homeschool.  That experience resonates with us.  See here, here, and here.  He talked about the … Continue reading →

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Cool stuff at work: Imaging an elephant with cataracts

Posted on Wednesday, November 16, 2011 by Dad

Day 86 of 1000 I got to work sometime after 5:30 AM.  As usual, I was the first one to arrive, but the CEO of the company (Bioptigen) showed up shortly after me.  When I asked him what he was … Continue reading →

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Alienware M11x vs. Thinkpad x220t for college

Posted on Tuesday, November 15, 2011 by Dad

Day 85 of 1000 Christian is half way through his sophomore year in college.  He has survived so far with a cheesy little 10″ HP netbook that he dual boots to Windows 7 and ArchLinux.  We know he will need … Continue reading →

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The REAL state of public education in America

Posted on Monday, November 14, 2011 by Dad

There is an article in The American Thinker (h.t. FreeRepublic) that explains just how bad government schools perform relative to their international peers.  A phenomena is described that is one of my pet peeves.  It seems like everyone in American … Continue reading →

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Continued conversation with the kid’s commie teacher

Posted on Friday, November 11, 2011 by Dad

Day 81 of 1000 As many already know, Kelly and Christian take a “writing” class at the community college where the dear leader of the class lectures on the evils of all things Christian, the beauty of communism and atheism, … Continue reading →

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Math and Engineering degrees are great even if you want to do something else

Posted on Thursday, November 10, 2011 by Dad

Day 80 of 1000 I found a great article in the Wall Street Journal this morning titled Generation Jobless:  Students Pick Easier Majors Despite Less Pay.  It had some startling statistics: Workers who majored in psychology have median earnings that … Continue reading →

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Stuck in a “project” rut

Posted on Monday, November 7, 2011 by Dad

Day 77 of 1000 Our 1000 day plan has given everyone in our family lots of energy to get on track with a lot of stuff.  Now that we are in the last third of the semester, Lorena and the … Continue reading →

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Math test preparation is hard

Posted on Friday, November 4, 2011 by Dad

Day 74 of 1000 Kelly stayed up until about 2:00 AM Wednesday morning in preparation for a Calculus III test.  Like a lot of complicated things, calculus is hard until you know how to do it and have used it … Continue reading →

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Gates: Statistics before Calculus, Geometry, and Computer Science

Posted on Friday, October 28, 2011 by Dad

Day 67 of 1000 Andrew does it again. Here is a quote from an article for which Andrew sent me a link this morning: Asked whether he thought computer science should start being introduced very early in kids’ educations, Gates … Continue reading →

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Hmm… Conspriacy anyone?

Posted on Thursday, October 27, 2011 by Dad

Rember the EuroStudent Hipster in Kelly’s Science Fiction class?  Remember the commie, pro-drug, 1960′s throwback from Christian’s and Kelly’s and English Composition class?  The day the commie spent the entire “writing” class making inane, irrational arguments about the existence of … Continue reading →

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Charles Murray: Community College is OK, but think long and hard before doing a BA

Posted on Friday, October 14, 2011 by Dad

Day 53 of 1000 Charles Murray authored a book titled Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America’s Schools Back to Reality.  It is about the bankruptcy of the American education system.  He is a big proponent of the idea … Continue reading →

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