Summer Scholars Series – 2024!
Join us for three online discussions led by scholars and master teachers on selected topics in the liberal arts and classical Christian educational pedagogy! The…
Category: On Teaching
A daily thought on the art and endeavor of flourishing as an independent, classical Christian teacher with the Kepler Consortium.
Quality and Confusion in Education
Quality in education entails learning about something in depth. Confusion is thrust upon kids by too many strange adults, each working alone with only the…
Evolutionary or Developmental
In John Senior’s The Death of Christian Culture, he compares Matthew Arnold’s evolutionary view of Christianity and culture to the developmental view of the same…
The Natural Sequence of Things
Real learning can only take place when the teacher can identify and lay out the natural sequence of things for the student in his ultimate…
Naked Wrestling
Education in general, and in every subject, should “draw heavily on direct and vicarious experience that engages and awakens the senses”—poetry, music, “naked wrestling”((James Taylor,…
Music: A Fundamental Component to a Liberal Arts Education
In 1996, the College Entrance Exam Board Service conducted a study on all students taking their SAT exams. Students who sang or played a musical…
The Importance of Knowing Literature
I am persuaded that without knowledge of literature, pure theology cannot at all endure, just as heretofore, when letters have declined and lain prostrate, theology,…
Leadership is Listening
The famed UCLA basketball coach, the late John Wooden, once told a reporter who asked that the key to good leadership (i.e., having influence) is…
The Destiny of All
Not everyone is obliged to excel in philosophy, medicine, or the law, nor are all equally favored by nature; but all are destined to live…
Education and the State
The public interest in the individual’s life and learning is not that of a prospective employer or bureaucrat. Although, the individual must live in harmony…