Lodestone
A classical education for the world as it is.
The Library
Each curriculum runs through five levels, from ages six to eighteen. They can be read in any order. Each one is a kind of compass.
See clearly. Act rightly.
Teaches children how power, incentives, institutions, and human nature actually work — without making them cynical, paranoid, or manipulative. Every lesson pairs perception with virtue.
Enter curriculumSay what you mean.
Train children to think with precision and speak with courage. Rhetoric as a tool for truth, not performance — sound arguments, honest persuasion, and the language of real thought.
Enter curriculumThe virtues and arithmetic of money.
Teach children what things cost, how value is made, why work is worth what it is, and how to hold money without being held by it. Economic reasoning and moral stewardship.
Enter curriculumChoose what is worth wanting.
Train children to notice beauty, develop gratitude, and think seriously about meaning, virtue, and what it takes to live well. The questions that shape a life.
Enter curriculumHistory repeats before it rhymes.
Teach children to see civilizations as patterns — rise and fall, order and drift, memory and forgetting — and to recognize those patterns in their own time.
Enter curriculumLodestone Adventures
Illustrated choose-your-path adventures for ages six to ten — one for each lesson in the first module of every path. Thirty stories with big decisions, believable consequences, and no single right answer.
Wells, shortcuts, and one rule that outlived its reason. Six adventures about how power and fairness actually work.
Six adventuresBakeries, puppies, and one very bad Wednesday. Six adventures about asking well, hearing no, and trying again.
Six adventuresEggs, candy bars, and a blank price sign. Six adventures about trading fair, what money is, and what things cost.
Six adventuresStorms, stars, and a bench that fits perfectly. Six adventures about noticing the world before it slips past.
Six adventuresOld stones, older fires. Six adventures about deep time and your child's place in a very long story.
Six adventuresEvery adventure in one place, grouped by path, each linked to the lesson it comes from.
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How the weekly rhythm works.