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General education
The college lessons in full. Latin complete. Letters, Euclid, moral philosophy, American history as history — not a social system, not a teacher-credential program. You enroll yourself. Nobody here is licensed to teach by a state board, and we do not need to be. No certificate at the end.
This is not a degree, not a credential, not “college credit.” It is the work a person does to be generally educated in the American sense: languages, demonstration, the compact, the books. If you want a transcript a bureau will stamp, go to a school that sells one. If you want the education, copy, recite, demonstrate — Lincoln method.
What we will not teach as required
Sociology as a master science. “Social studies” as a replacement for history. Law as whatever a court last claimed. Identity as a curriculum. Teacher-ed units. We are not training you to hold a classroom license. We are training you to read, prove, and write.
Full Latin
Not two terms of tourism. The language until you can read the law’s own tongue and the Founders’ schoolbooks.
| Stage | Work | Until |
|---|---|---|
| L1 Grammar | Forms, cases, the five declensions, verbs through subjunctive. Wheelock or Allen & Greenough. Copy every paradigm. | You can parse a sentence aloud without English first |
| L2 Syntax | Ablative absolute, indirect statement, purpose, result, conditions. Daily composition English → Latin, ten sentences. | You can write a period Cicero would not laugh at |
| L3 Caesar | Gallic War I and IV. Read, don’t trot. Recite a chapter. | Unseen Caesar, 15 lines, one sitting |
| L4 Cicero | Pro Archia or First Catilinarian. Office, eloquence, the republic in speech. | A page of Cicero to English, then the argument in IRAC |
| L5 Verse | Virgil, Aeneid I. Scansion. Lincoln’s Shakespeare sits beside this: meter in the mouth. | Twenty lines recited |
| L6 Legal Latin | Maxims: lex rex, nolle prosequi, res ipsa, stare decisis, mens rea, actus reus, habeas corpus, posse comitatus, ultra vires, ejusdem generis, expressio unius, noscitur a sociis, in pari materia. Justinian’s Institutes, selected titles, in Latin facing English. Blackstone’s Latin as he printed it. | You can parse a maxim and apply it in IRAC without a crib |
| L7 Vulgate / founding | Genesis 1, John 1, Romans 13 in Latin. Then the Latin of the law: Magna Carta extracts; Coke as cited in American cases. | You hear the compact in the older tongue |
Texts are public domain or your purchased grammar. We do not host Wheelock. We host the order. Legal Latin is for the law map, not a charm.
The other college lessons, in full
| Field | The book / hall | Done when |
|---|---|---|
| Logic | Aristotle, selected; Euclid as working logic — Work VI | A proposition on a blank page |
| Mathematics | Euclid I–VI, then MIT 18.01 door on STEM | Proof, then a derivative you can explain |
| Natural philosophy | Newton’s laws; Shankar lecture 1 after the copy | The three laws recited, one problem demonstrated |
| Moral philosophy | Witherspoon; Rutherford; Knox — not a values workshop | PHL 401 examination on that page |
| Rhetoric | Aristotle; Lincoln stump; Hamilton newspaper. Write shorter. | 12-minute speech, other side first |
| American history | Documents: Declaration, Articles, Constitution, Hillsborough, Washington’s Farewell, Lincoln Lyceum. Fed/Anti-Fed. Jacksonian hall. Not a textbook’s “themes.” | Three columns of the compact from memory |
| English letters | Shakespeare, one history play; Milton, Tenure of Kings; the Federalist as literature of office | Two speeches memorized |
| Scripture as schoolbook | KJV: Genesis, Exodus, Deuteronomy, Romans — Lincoln’s Bible, not a mascot | Deuteronomy 6 recited |
That is a general education. It is the BA catalog without pretending to confer the BA. Law study on this hall assumes you are doing this alongside it, or you will IRAC in a thin language.