Annie Crawford
@annielcrawford
Cultural Apologist | Classical Educator | Lewis Scholar "The end of all endeavor is to be happy at home." - Samuel Johnson
“The study of philosophy is not the study of what men have opined, but of what is the truth.” St. Thomas Aquinas
Why did I homeschool? Why do I teach for homeschool families rather than a private schools that would pay me better and look more prestigious? Why do I hang out around the TLC? Why do I bother to post on X? Why haven't I pursued a PhD and higher academic levels in my career?…
I am pleased to hear more educators talk about integrating common, liberal, and fine arts. However, it is rather artificial and laborious to combine these three within institutional schools and rarely is mastery or enculturation within a non-liberal craft achieved. On the…
Amazon delivery just in time for my 4pm Gin and Tonic by the pool reading time! Summer life is good.
Y'all, would "Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy" be a good Audible listen?
"The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul" - I have rarely read a more bewitching title.
When you classically homeschool your children, you are making a generational investment in the culture of your family lineage for decades to come. Even just a few years into adulthood, my daughters have become my friends and counselors, my encouragers and my genuine delight.…
CS Lewis’s Ransom Trilogy does both.
Sci-fi’s essential purpose is warning. Fantasy’s essential purpose is reminding.
This is the way. Learning is a way of life.
Most people in this image were homeschooled.
If you’re not reading Joseph, you’re missing out on some of the best film criticism going right now.
Thanks for the share @aaron_renn! Proud of this piece, and really interested in seeing how filmmakers will unpack Covid find forward, for good and ill.
“Favorable conditions never come,” notes Lewis. Do with that what you must. Today is the day. Tomorrow is not a given. Do.
This is another reason why we better be very careful that macroevolution is actually true before we begin using it as a model for human behavior. Darwinian Evolution tempts us to say, "We were designed this way. Nature has given me a male instinct for polygamy. Therefore it is…
Obviously, there are numerous things wrong with this attempt at outrage farming, but there's one thing he got correct: There is a mismatch between the male evolutionary instinct for polygyny and the modern moral norm of monogamous marriage. But here's why his strategy is…
Because I teach Media Ecology and write about issues related to technology, I usually try to play around with new tech to better understand its strengths, weaknesses, tendencies, and dangers. I've tried asking LLMs to do a variety of things for the past year and here is my…