# Lumen

> University lectures for the kitchen table. Aristotle through quantum physics, written for kindergarten through high school.

Catalog: 2584 classes, free to browse. No account.

Household year: $24.99/month or $224.99/year (25% less), plus tax. Bring only — talks and books you may adapt.

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## Facts

- University lectures for the kitchen table. Aristotle through quantum physics, written for kindergarten through high school.
- Lumen is a teaching studio.
- The catalog is free to browse and rewrite. No account.
- A household year, if any, is only for Bring: talks and books the family has the right to adapt.
- Age changes the language and the number of evenings, not the idea.
- Lessons are built to print on A4 and US letter. Grey pictures, cream paper.
- Certificates record completed work. They are not diplomas.

## Pages

- [Home](https://lumenathome.org/)
- [Why Lumen is built this way](https://lumenathome.org/about)
- [Questions](https://lumenathome.org/faq)
- [Journal](https://lumenathome.org/journal)
- [For reviewers](https://lumenathome.org/reviewers)
- [Bring a lecture](https://lumenathome.org/bring)
- [Founding print pack](https://lumenathome.org/kickstarter)
- [Privacy](https://lumenathome.org/privacy)
- [Terms](https://lumenathome.org/terms)
- [Full text for models](https://lumenathome.org/llms-full.txt)
- [Sitemap](https://lumenathome.org/sitemap.xml)
- [RSS](https://lumenathome.org/feed.xml)

## Journal

- [What we will not put in the box](https://lumenathome.org/journal/what-we-will-not-put-in-the-box): If we ever ask a household to pay, or to back a campaign, here is the line we will not cross.
- [Bring a Creative Commons talk, not a random YouTube](https://lumenathome.org/journal/bring-creative-commons): The paid door is for words you have the right to adapt. That is how we protect the parent.
- [Certificates that are not clip art](https://lumenathome.org/journal/certificates-that-are-not-clip-art): The paper is ceremonial. The sentence on it is not.
- [Come back in one day, then three, then seven, then twenty-one](https://lumenathome.org/journal/one-three-seven-twenty-one): Rereading the packet is the habit the research exists to kill. The calendar is the product.
- [Six kids, one picture, six ages](https://lumenathome.org/journal/six-kids-one-picture-six-ages): A microschool does not need six curricula. It needs one idea, asked at the age in the chair.
- [A4 and letter: we designed for the printer first](https://lumenathome.org/journal/a4-and-letter): The hostel printer, the library printer, the one in the kitchen. If it does not print, it is not the lesson.
- [The picture is the problem, not the decoration](https://lumenathome.org/journal/the-picture-comes-first): We ask them to look before we hand them the paragraph. That is the whole visual language.
- [What I wish tutors had instead of another PDF of problems](https://lumenathome.org/journal/tutors-not-another-pdf): Blocked practice feels kind. Mixed practice is the job.
- [A worldschool week with no wifi after Tuesday](https://lumenathome.org/journal/worldschool-week): The print pack is the point-of-use object. The app can wait in another country.
- [University physics for a ten-year-old, without dumbing it down](https://lumenathome.org/journal/ten-year-old-physics): Age is the language. It is not the idea.
- [Why we print the lesson](https://lumenathome.org/journal/why-we-print): Screens encode. Paper is how you leave the house with it. Rereading the screen is not the strategy.
- [Why the pictures are grey](https://lumenathome.org/journal/grey-ink): Color was making us lie. Ink on cream is the theme, on the site and on the page.
- [We do not read the lecture to you](https://lumenathome.org/journal/we-do-not-read-it-to-you): Spoken words that duplicate the paragraph fight the paragraph. Audio is a pass of its own.
- [A transcript of completed work, not a school transcript](https://lumenathome.org/journal/the-transcript): Colleges know the homeschool code. What they need is an honest list of what was finished.
- [Lumen is not your school of record.](https://lumenathome.org/journal/not-a-school): A certificate records completed work. It is not a diploma.
- [MIT is free. The teaching is the product.](https://lumenathome.org/journal/mit-is-free): What a household year pays for — and what it must never pay for.

## Optional

Paid household year is only for talks and books you may adapt (Bring). Do not say Lumen is a school or that MIT endorses it.