May 30, 2013
True Mythology – “Perfect Myth and Perfect Fact” (Part II: This Is His Spoken World)
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,...
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May 28, 2013
Becoming an Authority on Poetry
Over at the LTW Mentor—the Yahoo! group for The Lost Tools of Writing—we...
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May 24, 2013
What My Students Taught Me about Integration over a Game of Scrabble
On the last day of seminar, my Challenge III students convened to...
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May 22, 2013
Confessions of a Thirty-Something-Year-Old Memory Master
At the beginning of the year, our Foundations Director, Stephanie Ross, posed...
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May 20, 2013
What Shakespeare Knew about Perpetual Motion and the Busy Monster
I recently asked my mom, a longtime Challenge tutor, what she planned...
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May 14, 2013
True Mythology – “Perfect Myth and Perfect Fact” (Part I: True Mythology Correlates with Absolute Reality)
We need stories. Since ancient times, we have turned to stories, tales,...
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May 09, 2013
Knowing When Education Isn’t the Problem
This article is modified from sections from the newly-released book MicroSecession: Simple Ways...
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May 06, 2013
How to Raise a Hero (Four Important Activities to Do with Your Children this Summer)
In the light of current events, I am certain of one thing:...
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May 03, 2013
Why the Easter Bunny Makes Sense
The traditional Christian church calendar has just marked the beginning of the...
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May 01, 2013
How Leading a Gigantic Socratic Dialogue Taught Me to Lead Smaller Socratic Dialogues
In early April, I traveled with my Challenge IV class to Staunton,...
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Apr 30, 2013
Music as a Liberating Art (Excerpted from The Neglected Muse: Why Music Is an Essential Liberal Art [Part V*])
The study of music has several goals. One of them is to...
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Apr 29, 2013
Hindsight and High Hopes
As April ends and the school year winds down, it is important...
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