This workshop has totally changed the way I think about teaching.
I didn’t put those words in quotes because I can’t remember the exact wording, but it was something like that that a homeschooling mom said to me on Wednesday after a Lost Tools of Writing Workshop in Houston. In fact, she was one of at […]
The classical world in the so-called Golden Age of Greece offered three curriculum options:
The Platonic
The Aristotelian
The Isocratic
The church fathers purged and refined these into the medieval classical curriculum so highly praised by Sayers and others.
Responding to my earlier post on the trivium, Christopher White asks:
“Does what you’re advocating mean that the logic and rhetoric stage will almost exclusively happen in college?”
Since the answer is fairly substantial, and, I think, very important, I’ll start a new post with it.
I begin by quoting myself, as Philistine as that may be, to […]
I am in the process of writing about how to teach classically for our new web site update. The concept is exploding on me and becoming unmanageable, which, I suppose, is why I do teacher training in-house.
But one thing in particular is making this difficult and it is that our accepted categories are not up […]
A master of a given science (understood classically) is the person who can speak on his own authority, that is to say, from his own knowledge, experience, understanding, perception, etc.
When such a person quotes from another authority, he knows the meaning of what he is quoting in his heart and in its essence. […]
Back in May I referred to the following quotation from Susan Wise Baur.
Rather, “classical” refers to a pattern of training the mind first used in medieval education, and followed in European and even in American schools until relatively recently. Classical education proposes that learning take place in three stages. The early years of school are […]
A liberal education is not the same thing as a general education. Specialization must be built on the foundation of the true liberal arts or it spins off to form its own wholly inadequate solar system.
“From one thing, know ten thousand things.” Those are the words of Musashi Miyamoto (1584-1645), arguably the greatest swordsman and military strategist and tactician in Japanese history. This statement from his great work A Book of Five Rings is significant in its parallel to the classical Christian view of design principles in education, […]
Let’s take part in a little mental biology lab, or an expedition in natural history, if you will. Imagine an animal with an internal skeleton. The purpose, the principle underlying the design of that skeleton is manifold. In part, it allows motion as well as stability. Bones are not designed to […]
on integration: Be careful to distinguish it from overlapping. Overlapping is what happens when you take the content of one subject and place it on top of the content of another subject. This causes the subjects to either be swallowed up in a third and hopefully higher subject, one of the subjects to disappear in […]