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Economics, Logic & Entrepreneurship
Nashville, Tennessee · teaches in Central time, shown to you in Eastern
Thomas came to teaching from small-business lending, where he watched a lot of good ideas fail for reasons no one had explained to their founders. He teaches price theory with a whiteboard and a genuine relish for the objections.
“Economics is not a set of conclusions, it is a way of noticing tradeoffs. I want a student to leave able to state the case for markets and the strongest case against them, and to know which parts of the disagreement are empirical.”
Economics
Eight weeks, both sides, no slogans
Smith, Mises, Hayek and Friedman put directly against Marx, Polanyi, and the modern critics, with students required to state each case in its strongest form.
Mr. Thomas WardNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$8/wk
$48 in total
$19.20 for add’l siblings
Great Books
Selections, read closely
A student studying Smith reads Smith. Books I and IV in substantial selection, plus the passages from Moral Sentiments people forget exist.
Mr. Thomas WardNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$8/wk
$56 in total
$22.40 for add’l siblings
Personal Finance
Twice a week · Five weeks · Ages 15–18
Budget, credit, compounding, taxes and insurance in five weeks, Tuesdays and Thursdays. Built to be finished before a first job starts.
Mr. Thomas WardNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$14/wk
$70 in total
$28 for add’l siblings
Logic
Reward-unlockable
Proof-based geometry taught the classical way, and redeemable with the credit earned from the core sequence.
Mr. Thomas WardNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$7/wk
$49 in total
$19.60 for add’l siblings
Logic
Reward-unlockable
Variables to functions in eight weeks, and fully covered by the credit earned from completing any two core-sequence courses.
Mr. Thomas WardNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$7/wk
$42 in total
$16.80 for add’l siblings
Logic
Arguments, fallacies, and proof
The single most transferable course in the catalog: how to tell a good argument from a bad one, and how to build one that holds.
Mr. Thomas WardNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$7/wk
$42 in total
$10 off · 7 seats left
$16.80 for add’l siblings
Logic
Three short meetings a week · Ages 12–15
The same ground as Logic I, in half-hour meetings three times a week for four weeks. Reasoning is a skill, and skills are built by short frequent practice.
Mr. Thomas WardNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$18/wk
$72 in total
$28.80 for add’l siblings
Personal Finance
Before the first paycheck
Budgets, credit, compounding, taxes and insurance, taught by someone who spent six years watching what happens when nobody explains them.
Mr. Thomas WardNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$7/wk
$42 in total
$16.80 for add’l siblings
Economics
Four weeks, assigned sides
Sides are assigned, not chosen. Students research, brief, and debate the case they were given, then switch and do it again.
Mr. Thomas WardNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$8/wk
$32 in total
$12.80 for add’l siblings
Personal Finance
Saving, spending, giving · Ages 7–9
Three jars, real coins, and the first honest conversation a child has about money. Where it comes from, why it runs out, and what it is for.
Mr. Thomas WardNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$6/wk
$36 in total
$14.40 for add’l siblings
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