GRADE LEVEL PACIFIC MOUNTAIN CENTRAL EASTERN 3rd Grade Class (Monday) 8:00 AM 9:00 AM 10:00 AM 11:00 AM 4th Grade Class (Monday) 9:00 AM 10:00 AM 11:00 AM 12:00 PM 5th Grade Class (Monday) 10:00 AM 11:00 AM 12:00 PM 1:00 PM 6th Grade Class (Monday) 11:00 AM 12:00 PM 1:00 PM 2:00 PM 7th Grade Class (Monday) 12:00 PM 1:00 PM 2:00 PM 3:00 PM 8th Grade Class (Monday) 1:00 PM 2:00 PM 3:00 PM 4:00 PM If your preferred class is marked FULL, add your name to the Socratic Discussions WAITLIST, and we will notify you when a seat opens, or if we add another class, [...]

Most of us are not trained to think critically. We are taught to read, write, and do arithmetic in grade school and these are necessary for thinking in a critical way. But they do not themselves constitute critical thinking. In middle school and high school, we are taught a fair number of facts and, if we do a lot of math and science, some methods of thinking. But cramming our heads full of facts is not an education in how to think logically, much less an education in critical thinking. Rather, having a lot of facts in our heads provides us [...]

The study of the nature of moral choices has been with us as far back as our historical memory and religious traditions can reach. We have inherited the foundations of that study from such great philosophers and pillars of Western culture as Plato, Aristotle, Saint Augustine and Saint Thomas Aquinas. This course draws on this rich tradition and provides a new and profound look at those aspects of human moral conduct which are both obvious and true. Topics include: Good and End: The Object of Human Acts; The Hierarchy of the Good; The Moral Being—The Decision; The Mode of Human Conduct—Areteology [...]

Grade Course Time Required Book 7th Grade Ethics 8:00 AM PST Ethics: Drama of the Moral Life by Prof. Piotr Jaroszynski& The Time of Our Lives: The Ethics of Common Sense by Dr. Mortimer J. Adler 8th Grade Socratic Logic 9:30 AM PST Socratic Logic by Peter Kreeft 3rd & 4th Grades Philosophy for Children 11:00 AM PST ElfieIn Elfie, the children are beginning to question and wonder. Elfie is in the first grade and is so shy she can’t speak in class and can hardly even formulate a question. Yet little escapes her in the goings on in the class, and her mind [...]