In many countries, generally accepted mediums of exchange known as “money” have served to facilitate the greater production of wealth. Bartering, the former and more primitive convention, was profitably abandoned owing its incredibly awkward limitations. For example, if you desire to have one-hundred of the silk pillows I manufacture, and I desire to have one […]

I started the Robinson curriculum roughly five years ago, at the age of 11 years old. Transitioning to it from the Ron Paul curriculum was certainly turbulent. This was mostly because the content of Robinson curriculum (1.) was to be entirely self-taught, something that I had initially suspected would be more than I could manage. […]

My mother discovered the Ron Paul Curriculum 1 at a time when Common Core standards were becoming more widely adopted in the States. She was concerned that such curricula were contributing to the “dumbing-down” of American children. Ron Paul’s curriculum was not only devoid of Common Core, but overtly against it (as indicated by a conspicuously positioned anti-Common-Core […]

The following is the first post in a series titled Homeschooling Memoirs, throughout which I intend to relate some of my experiences with homeschooling. Since I have been homeschooling for a number of years now, and given that the approach has recently become more common in our country, I consider myself obligated to share with […]

The Incompatibility of Totalitarianism And Religion Religion claims to provide a point of reference by which the individual can anchor his attitude towards external circumstances. Belief in such a point of reference supplies him with the confidence necessary to execute judgement and make decisions in the world. This appears to explain, at least partly, why […]