Jeremy Wayne Tate
@JeremyTate41
Founder of @CLT_Exam, the fastest growing standardized test in America 🇺🇸
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After teaching in public schools for 10 years I was baffled when I started to get to know homeschooling families.
Many of them only do a couple hours of “school” a day, the rest of the time the kids are playing in tree forts, digging holes, helping out around the house, learning to hunt, playing with musical instruments, reading whatever they want to read. The most successful families simply have a culture of reading and learning that permeates the household.
And Homeschooled students average score 15 to 30 percentile points above national norms across all standardized tests.
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I remember one of my LSU professors mocking the medieval idea that the peasants could learn from cathedrals.
I can’t imagine a better place for university students to spend a week.
Art, History, Mathematics, Scripture, Architecture.
It’s ALL there. The ancients were right.
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The Botafumeiro is one of the most spectacular traditions of Santiago de Compostela Cathedral: eight tiraboleiros swing a 53 kg giant censer through the nave at speeds of up to 68 km/h.
The ritual has been performed since at least the 12th century.
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Imagine if every state were as based as Texas and required students to read the foundational works of Western civilization.
This 800 year old church in Ethiopia was carved downwards from solid rock.
According to Ethiopian tradition, it was completed in twenty-four years “with the assistance of angels.”
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The numbers defy logic, nearly 20% of all men who graduate from John Paul the Great K-12 school in Louisiana go on to seminary (at most Catholic schools it’s less than 1%). The classical education, Daily Mass, and Eucharistic adoration are creating a quiet revival.
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“The Classic Learning Test, a standardized college entrance exam that focuses on the Western Canon, has become popular in some Red States. Will it replace the SAT or ACT?”
Blue states are free to like us too, it’s not our problem if they hate Aristotle
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