The camp kids spent much of the day in the rain. I came home from a homeschool conference around 3 and they were just beginning to come back from the beach. If it isn’t thundering they can technically swim. Before I left for class they were out in the athletic field, some playing a ball game and others playing in the yard drain. I came home from class and they were still outside, this time playing counselor safari.

I left class about an hour early. I basically just wanted to come back home. It’d been a longer day gone and I had a few things to tend to while my brain was still working. I felt a little bad leaving because you don’t want to leave a teacher feeling like his class is dispensable. I’m sure they put a lot of work into those things. But sometimes the self-care plan requires cutting something out. I’d been sitting too much and needed to walk.

This homeschooling conference was a low-key local meeting of moms and some dads. It is something the Classical Conversations leadership puts on every year. I’ve typically had mixed feelings about CC every since I became aware of it when I started homeschooling. It’s an absolutely, beautifully designed curriculum that I’m convinced was developed by a true genius and brainiac. Every subject goes above and beyond.

But there’s this part of me that also thinks, “Do we really need to learn all this?” Would I absolutely love to immerse myself in the material and spend the rest of my life learning the math map and studying the trivium and finding out and understanding what they mean when they link Astronomy (not Geometry) with the third dimension, also calling it the Human Space? This is thousand of years worth of study and knowledge condensed.

But why would we have to, and it is truly possible, to learn all of this? I don’t believe it is, not in the way that I would want to learn it. The access we have to materials now, even just a basic education, is so much more than so many others have ever had. I can be okay with not knowing, one subject alone and you could not plumb it’s depths. There isn’t the time here. But can I be in awe for the rest of my life? Can I simply praise?