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St. Johns College President Christopher Nelson recently gave an address about the value of a liberal arts education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
If you have ever asked me why I went to St. Johns, what I think is so great about the liberal arts, or why I think that [...]
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“Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not,
as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe,
an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory”
~Emily Post, American Etiquette Pioneer
A new study in the journal Psychological Science concluded [...]
One of the women in my education masters program came up with the following advertisement to recruit secondary teachers after reading Phil Gang’s Rethinking Education. She did it with a little tongue and cheek, but frankly, it’s spot on!
“Secondary level teacher of ……………required, must have high self esteem, be intelligent, have a full extra [...]
“Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage… Unless we can make [...]
This is a great article by Michael Strong. In it, Michael talks about how Socratic practice helps develop student’s rational abilities and helps make rational, tolerant discourse a cultural norm.
Michael actually has a column on this website.
“If the idea of the universe is presented to the child in the right way, it will do more for him than just arouse his interest, for it will create in him admiration and wonder, a feeling loftier than any interest and more satisfying.” ~Maria Montessori
“We are perishing for want of wonder, not for [...]
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. ~Aristotle
The ‘absorbent mind’ welcomes everything, puts hope in everything…adopts any religion, and the prejudices and the habits of its countrymen, incarnating all in itself. That is the child! ~Maria Montessori
Nature says copy your parents…whatever your interests are, the child gets tremendously interested in them [...]
I have been reading Ayn Rand’s essay “Philosophy: Who Needs It” again recently. This is an excellent and accessible essay that almost everyone would enjoy. In it, Rand sets out to explain why everyone needs philosophy.
One of the main points of the essay is that every one of us is already possessed of a [...]
I have a number of very intelligent and eager students who meet with me after school for various intellectual clubs. (There is Philosophy on Mondays, Logos, a math and logic club, on Wednesdays, and Debate on Thursdays. I also facilitate the Socrates Café in Houston on a Sunday once a month and Benjamin Cohen-Kurzrock, one [...]
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