Apr 18, 2013
Learning Year-Round
In Proverbs 2:10, we learn, “…wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will...
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Apr 17, 2013
Why We Love the Patterns
Cultural theorist Marshall McLuhan wrote in his 1964 book Understanding Media, “The mark...
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Apr 15, 2013
One-Room Schoolhouse Math: Ideas for the Challenge Math Seminar
It has been said that scientists and mathematicians comprise a new priesthood....
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Apr 12, 2013
Developing “Math Sense”
My daughter’s first word was “book.” I am sure she babbled “MaMaMa”...
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Apr 11, 2013
The Missing Pieces of Public Education
This article is modified from sections from the newly-released book MicroSecession: Simple Ways...
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Apr 10, 2013
The Two Most Common Misunderstandings I Have Seen Concerning Latin
I hope the end of the school year finds you well. Memory...
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Apr 05, 2013
Why Does Classical Conversations Encourage One Teacher for All Subjects?
I remember an incident that occurred when my children were somewhat younger;...
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Apr 03, 2013
Learning from a Simple Melody: Scarborough Fair (Excerpted from The Neglected Muse: Why Music Is an Essential Liberal Art [Part IV*])
Music education that aims at real knowledge requires careful attention to the...
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Apr 02, 2013
Spontaneous Integration: Jazz Music, Playwrights, and the Cold War
What do Shakespeare, actors, newspapers, jazz, and communism all have in common?...
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Apr 01, 2013
What If the Art Teacher Taught Math?
My thirteen-year-old daughter is in Challenge B this year, and she is...
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Mar 29, 2013
Skills versus Subjects
Classical education is a “curious thing,” viewed from the perspective of a...
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Mar 28, 2013
“Education is to train the heart to love that which deserves loving.”
This quote from John Hodges’ first lecture at the Toward the Quadrivium...
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