Homeschooling: A Family’s Journey

No one could call Louie Free conventional. Host of The Louie Free Radio Show (billed as The Intelligent Alternative: Brain Food from the Heartland) he invited us to discuss homeschooling and our book for almost an hour today.

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About a year ago, the violinist Joshua Bell played incognito in a Washington metro station. It was a newspaper stunt, and the Washington Post published an article about it. One episode was memorable enough that, a year later, it’s still worth noting:
..,it is Franz Schubert’s “Ave Maria,” which surprised some music critics when [...]

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What we now call Ancient Greek literature, the Greeks called music. Masked actors sang the plays, and bards chanted the epics. So it’s one thing to read the classics, but another and truer thing to hear them as they may have been sung. Only a few fragments of ancient Greek music [...]

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