trivium
Latin before lunch: six weeks of declensions filmed at the kitchen table
Lyceum Institute
A family experiment emphasizing independent judgment and beyond the reach of indoctrination
We teach our own,and trust our own judgment.
One child, one hearth, no permission slips. This is our open record of teaching above and beyond the state's curriculum — the methods, the setbacks, and the proof of what a family can do alone.
New field logs every Sunday evening.
Antequam obtemperes verifica. Desponde donec scias cur.
- Verify
- Consent
- Sovereignty
Path one
The Sunday Dispatch
One letter a week from our school room.
Field logs, video notes, and what failed.
Free
Weekly
Path two
Counsel by Letter
Pulling your child out and unsure where to start?
Write to us and we answer plainly, parent to
parent.
No fee
By reply
What free minds said first
Antequam obtemperes verifica. Desponde donec scias cur.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson→ Essayist, Self-Reliance
Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already. Let your life be a counter friction to the machine.
Henry David Thoreau→ Naturalist, Civil Disobedience
Once you learn to read, you will be forever free. Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave to any master.
Frederick Douglass→ Orator, Narrative of the Life
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain→ Author, Attributed
The aim of public education is not to fill the young with knowledge, but to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level.
H. L. Mencken→ Critic, The American Mercury
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson→ Essayist, Self-Reliance
Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already. Let your life be a counter friction to the machine.
Henry David Thoreau→ Naturalist, Civil Disobedience
Once you learn to read, you will be forever free. Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave to any master.
Frederick Douglass→ Orator, Narrative of the Life
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain→ Author, Attributed
The aim of public education is not to fill the young with knowledge, but to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level.
H. L. Mencken→ Critic, The American Mercury
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson→ Essayist, Self-Reliance
Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already. Let your life be a counter friction to the machine.
Henry David Thoreau→ Naturalist, Civil Disobedience
Once you learn to read, you will be forever free. Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave to any master.
Frederick Douglass→ Orator, Narrative of the Life
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain→ Author, Attributed
The aim of public education is not to fill the young with knowledge, but to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level.
H. L. Mencken→ Critic, The American Mercury
Field logs
The record, unedited
Fieldwork Fridays
Creek beds, ledgers, and a nine-year-old classifying her own specimens
Workshop Term
Building, measuring, failing, rebuilding — arithmetic with real consequences
Enlist your household
Antequam obtemperes verifica. Desponde donec scias cur.
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Antequam obtemperes verifica. Desponde donec scias cur.