SS #116 – Feasting in a time of fasting

SS #116 – Feasting in a time of fasting

At Schole Sisters, we want to remind ourselves and our listeners that we shouldn’t be the White Witch in our homes – making it always winter, but never Christmas. Christmas is worth the effort of celebration. But what about when times are tight? Gas is high, inflation is high, and most of us are feeling…

SS #114 – A Well-Educated Daughter (with Rebekah Merkle!)

SS #114 – A Well-Educated Daughter (with Rebekah Merkle!)

We know the college scene these days is not healthy, and it’s also ridiculously expensive. Yet it’s the default path we tend to set for our high school graduates. The boys, we think, need to go to university in order to get careers so they can provide for a family. Should our girls also get…

SS #113 – The Ideal Type

Are classical educators idealists? Is an Ideal Type necessary to an educational philosophy? What even is an Ideal Type and why is it capitalized? Today’s conversation, recorded on location in Dallas while the sisters were together for the annual retreat. We discussed chapter 4 in Norms & Nobility and the claims it makes about education…