Laura M. Berquist
Laura is a homeschooling mother of six, is founder and director
of Mother of Divine Grace School, a home study program currently serving 2400
students. Mrs. Berquist is the author of Designing Your Own Classical
Curriculum and editor of The Harp and Laurel Wreath: Poetry and Dictation for
the Classical Curriculum, both from Ignatius Press. Based on the philosophy of
the classical Trivium – grammar, logic, and rhetoric – she has developed a
modern classical homeschool curriculum for grade K-12 that strengthens
character and intellect, and reinforces virtue.

Mrs. Berquist is a graduate of Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, CA.
She has homeschooled her six children for the last 21 years. Four of those
children have now graduated from college, and two of them are married. Of the
remaining two children, one is currently being homeschooled and the other is
attending college.