Smarr Publishers: helping the home school community since 1996.

About the Company and Our Mission

Our ultimate mission at Smarr Publishers is to please the Lord Jesus Christ in all that we do. Upon Him is the foundation for our business, and we offer Him the glory for any success that we have had so far.

Our mission is also driven by the conviction that education is not for the training of workers to get jobs. We are past the Industrial Age when the conventional wisdom was for students to study hard, go to college, and get a good job. Those days are gone.

We are now in the Information Age, and the rules have changed for everyone. We still believe students should study, but their education should be radically different than that found in the common schools in America. Our English courses strive to have students question the status quo and to adopt the Bible as the sole, objective source for truth, whether that truth applies to liberty, to economics, or to politics.

Thus, our mission, by the grace of God, is to encourage as many young people as possible to be leaders in their communities, individuals who are self-governed socially, financially, and politically. Literature and rhetoric help students toward these goals in that the former sparks the imagination and the latter hones the intellect. And developing both the imagination and the intellect is the only route offered if self-sufficiency is the goal.

If liberty is not the goal of students, then they are wasting their time with humane studies and only need to train for a vocation in which they will serve their employers, the banks, and the American state for the rest of their lives. However, in the Information Age, it will be young persons who have abundant imagination and a keen intellect that will prove to be a blessing to their family, friends, and community.

On a less philosophical note, we desire students to delight in reading classical literature and to write with passion and conviction. Through our courses your students will develop an educated vocabulary, will learn to think clearly and logically, and will cover most of the major works throughout the ages which mark the educated person.

Thank you for this opportunity to serve you. To the LORD be the glory.

The Editors

Robert W. Watson, B.A., M.Ed., J.D., Editor

While teaching at a Christian school, Bob developed an English curriculum that emphasized critical writing and studying classical literature. This humble beginning led to the development of the curricula at Smarr Publishers. Bob received his B.A. and M.Ed. at Bob Jones University, Greenville SC and his J.D. at the Walter F. George School of Law, Mercer University, Macon GA. In addition to this, Bob attended the University of Georgia as a graduate student studying philosophy. Bob has been an adjunct professor of composition, literature, and philosophy at Middle Georgia College, Cochran, Georgia. As an author, Bob has written Critique of Pure Education: A Philosophy for the Home Educator, A Research Project in Ten Lessons, and The Epic of Gilgamesh: A Poetic Version. Recently, Bob has published his already popular course in philosophy called Ever Learning: The Fundamentals and History of Western Philosophy. Presently, Bob is also an instructor for Veritas Classical Schools in Macon and Warner Robins, Georgia, where he teaches literature, composition, and Latin. At the present time, Bob is enrolled with Atlantic Coast Theological Seminary where he is finishing his dissertation for a Ph.D.

Dori Anne received both of her degrees from Bob Jones University, Greenville, South Carolina. She has been a teacher of literature, an elementary school principal, a special education teacher, an elementary classical school teacher, and a home educator. Recently, Dori Anne was a high school counselor and English teacher with Concord Christian School in Knoxville, Tennessee. In addition to this, Dori Anne has graduated from the Centurions Program, which actively engages the secular culture. She is the author of the history course, A Revolutionary View of History, which is being offered by Smarr Publishers.

Currently, Dori Anne is the director at the learning center for Beeler Counseling and Learning Center in Farragut, Tennessee, near Knoxville. The company specializes in a program called "Expressways to Learning" that retrains the brain by increasing neural pathways between the brain's hemispheres. Dori Anne treats students with autism, traumatic brain injury, ADHD, and Dyslexia. She also helps veterans get ready to return to school and aids adults with English as a second language. In her "spare time," Dori Anne is completing her requirements for a Ph.D. from Atlantic Coast Theological Seminary. Also, if you are interested in having a third party evaluate your student's written work, Dori Anne provides a writing evaluation service for home-school families.