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Writing and Reasoning:
— Composition IB with English Mechanics
— Essay Writing B with English Mechanics
— Essay Writing A with English Mechanics

From the U.S. Studies Cycle (Grades 9+):
— American Literature
— Church History III
— U.S. History I
— Intro Physics I

From the Greek Cycle (Grades 10+):
— Greek Literature I
— Old Testament I
— Greek History I
— Astronomy I

From the Roman Cycle (Grades 11+):
— Roman Literature I
— Church History I
— Roman History I
— Biology IA

From the European A Cycle (Grade 12):
— Church History II
— Dante
— European History IA with Research Papers

In a spirit of thankfulness...for great and wonderful is His name! Happy Thanksgiving!

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St. Thomas Aquinas Academy Liberal Arts Education for the Catholic Homeschooling Family

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"A woman’s function is laborious"

SUPPOSING it to be conceded that humanity has acted at least not unnaturally in dividing itself into two halves, respectively typifying the ideals of special talent and of general sanity (since they are genuinely difficult to combine completely in one mind), it is not difficult to see why the line of cleavage has followed the line of s*x, or why the female became the emblem of the universal and the male of the special and superior.

Two gigantic facts of nature fixed it thus: first, that the woman who frequently fulfilled her functions literally could not be specially prominent in experiment and adventure; and second, that the same natural operation surrounded her with very young children, who require to be taught not so much anything as everything. Babies need not to be taught a trade, but to be introduced to a world. To put the matter shortly, woman is generally shut up in a house with a human being at the time when he asks all the questions that there are, and some that there aren’t. It would be odd if she retained any of the narrowness of a specialist.

Now if anyone says that this duty of general enlightenment (even when freed from modern rules and hours, and exercised more spontaneously by a more protected person) is in itself too exacting and oppressive, I can understand the view. I can only answer that our race has thought it worth while to cast this burden on women in order to keep common-sense in the world.

But when people begin to talk about this domestic duty as not merely difficult but trivial and dreary, I simply give up the question. For I cannot with the utmost energy of imagination conceive what they mean. When domesticity, for instance, is called drudgery, all the difficulty arises from a double meaning in the word. If drudgery only means dreadfully hard work, I admit the woman drudges in the home, as a man might drudge at the Cathedral of Amiens or drudge behind a gun at Trafalgar. But if it means that the hard work is more heavy because it is trifling, colorless and of small import to the soul, then as I say, I give it up; I do not know what the words mean.

To be Queen Elizabeth within a definite area, deciding sales, banquets, labors and holidays; to be Whiteley within a certain area, providing toys, boots, sheets, cakes and books, to be Aristotle within a certain area, teaching morals, manners, theology, and hygiene; I can understand how this might exhaust the mind, but I cannot imagine how it could narrow it.

How can it be a large career to tell other people’s children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one’s own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone? No; a woman’s function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. I will pity Mrs. Jones for the hugeness of her task; I will never pity her for its smallness.

~G.K. Chesterton: "What’s Wrong with the World," Part III, Ch. 3. ―The Emancipation of Domesticity.
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(Artwork: Mother and Children, by William-Adolphe Bouguereau; 1879)

A Manifesto for Liberal Education Let us offer to the young some clear years for becoming not a this or a that, but for learning to be a human being, whose powers of thought are well exercised, whose imagination is well stocked, whose will has conceived some large human purpose, and whose passions have found some fine object