About Us

The Examined Life was created by two homeschooling moms in South Dade in response to the lack of secular homeschool groups in our area. There really wasn't a place where we could discuss evolution, the Big Bang theory and data-driven cosmology without hurting someone's feelings.  We decided to seek like-minded families that are teaching a secular curriculum to their children, particularly where science and history are concerned.

We have chosen to teach our children by schooling the imagination, fostering critical and independent inquiry, championing intellectual honesty and rigor, privileging the scientific method, encouraging the mastery of more than one foreign language and the open-minded study of other cultures, relentlessly eliciting sophisticated writing skills, preparing for AP placement tests in  math, history, English, and the sciences.  We believe these objectives can be attained using a variety of learning styles from very structured Classical systems to delight-driven and unschooling methods.

Our goal is to prepare our children to attend the best universities anywhere in the world.  They may or may not choose to go, but they will have that choice.  It seems to us that what is striking about homeschooling is not how well children do--but that they do not do better.  The possibilities that homeschooling provides are astounding.  We intend to fulfill that potential. 

Membership
Membership is open to local homeschooling families in the South Miami-Dade area.  We meet for play dates, study dates, field trips and other social activities. 

About Our Enrichment Programs
We write much of our children's curricula each year ourselves. We have decided to freely share our efforts with other families that are pursuing academic excellence in their home schools. For the 2009-2010 academic year, we have developed a free Classical enrichment curriculum geared primarily at upper-elementary to early middle-school home learners. It can be adapted up or down. The enrichment curriculum covers the following topics: American History, World History, Latin, Art Appreciation, Music Appreciation and Biology. It is organized into 36 weekly assignments for each topic.  The enrichment curriculum is available free to members and non-members alike. 

Our Values
We celebrate diversity. We value tolerance. We welcome families of all races, lifestyles and sexual orientations that teach a college-preparatory secular curriculum.

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