Dwight Upton To All Instructors
"Philomathica" is my business name. It means love of learning. As a vendor to homeschool families, I am chiefly interested in the process of learning that forms the cognitive soil of the classes, and the mindset of curiosity that is the bedrock beneath all of that. The older I get, the more the lines smudge between the distinct subjects that I learned in school, and the more I see that every subject we teach in school is but a thread in a whole web of knowledge, everyone tugging at the others in interesting ways.
My own philomathica started with reading mythology and fairy tales (literature), expanding into how and why civilizations form and grow (geography and history), and the methods and means by which those civilizations advanced and destroyed themselves and others (politics and science). Clustered around all of it are the pictures, poems, music, and artifacts of all those things (art) bringing us back around to stories. It is all connected.
My formal education led to degrees in Fine Arts, English, Communications, and Aviation Weather. Life, and an inordinate amount of time in libraries, has led me to be (at one time or another): a salesman, an acting teacher, a logistics technician, a mercenary weatherman, a mobile locksmith, and a trade-show cargo handler. I am an Air Force veteran, and I have lived or worked in Japan, Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan, Turkey, the U.K., and throughout at least 38 of the United States. Antarctica was my favorite, and is the most beautiful place on earth, just past the edge of where the map says "here be dragons".
I am so excited to share this learning adventure with students this year!
Current Classes
Earth Science – (closed)
Global Geography – (closed)
Logic and Critical Thinking – (closed)
Meterology – (closed)
Public Speaking & Debate – (closed)
World Religions – (canceled)
Global Geography – (open)
Logic and Critical Thinking – (open)
Practical Meteorology – (open)
World Mythology – (open)