5 Words That Can Greatly Improve Your Education
The excerpt below is from Oliver DeMille’s Weekly Mentor. Click here for the full article. Word One: Screening Screening is the act of learning from the various screens in our lives—smartphones, tablets, smart watches, computers, televisions, electronic billboards, etc. ((See Kevin Kelly, The Inevitable, 2016, 88-89) This is actually a warning word. Screening can often […]
The Battle of Fort McHenry
My daughter just sent me a Facebook link to a patriotic video of Pastor Rutherford preaching at the Shepherd of The Hills Church in California back in 2010. He passionately tells the story of the origin of the hymn “The Star Spangled Banner,” Francis Scott Key, and the Battle of Baltimore. His is a moving rendition of history […]
A Capital Campaign That Anyone Can Afford
Monticello College 2016/2017 Capital Campaign It is time to increase our efforts in building Monticello College and that takes money. This capital campaign will raise $200,000. This campaign has three purposes: Build our Endowment ($25,000) Provide Scholarships ($100,000) Construction of Dining Hall (phase one) ($75,000) The plan is simple: 1,000 donors contributing $10 per month […]
Conversation With A Student
The following is a short conversation with an online Masters student who is the mother of 6 with all her kids still at home. From: Monticello College Student – MA in Natural Law Subject: Readings Date: June 24, 2016 12:02:07 PM MDT To: Doctor Brooks <sb@monticellocollege.org> Found an accountability partner which is huge. Still only got […]
Earth Art
The California Institute of Earth Art and Architecture (Cal-Earth) is where we learned to build with “Super Adobe.”
MC Students On Campus
I literally have had no time to update you until now. See the short student report and video below to her family and friends. THE DIARY OF AN AVID READER
The Diary Of An Avid Reader
Okay, so you know that we teach the Great Books, and that we have long classroom discussions, and that we doing a lot of hard farm work. But now I want you to hear straight from the students themselves. For the next few weeks, I will be featuring student blogs so you can get to […]
Success vs Failure
In our current culture failure means: lack of success; an unsuccessful person, enterprise, or thing. But that is a narrow and incomplete definition. If you look further, you will find a more complete definition: a lack or deficiency of desired quality; the action or state of not functioning; a sudden cessation of power. What this […]
An Apple Orchard Is Born!
We are so grateful to all the donors who helped raise the $8,000 + to fund this orchard and to Joelle Mancuso – CA (MC Trustee) who managed the entire fund raising project every day for over a month. A super big thank you to the volunteers who helped our students make this […]
Needs Versus Wants
Over the past 50 years, America has developed the world’s largest consumer culture. You really have to see this. The U.S. has the 3rd largest population in the world following China and India. But the U.S. also has the 2nd highest rate of consumption (following the oil rich country of the United Arab Emirates), where […]