The Teacher’s Assignment
In the Prologue to one of the most influential works on Classical Christian Education, Norms and Nobility, David Hicks asks the question, “What is the…
Category: On Teaching
A daily thought on the art and endeavor of flourishing as an independent, classical Christian teacher with the Kepler Consortium.
Teachers Are Something Else
Those who go by the title of teacher and feel they have done their job because they have shown up to a classroom on time…
Education and Reality
In The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self, Carl R. Trueman writes, “We all live in a world in which it is increasingly easy…
Classical Recitations
In his classical approach to systematic theology, Thomas Oden references the fact that modern journalism unwittingly derives its sequence of good reporting from classical Christian…
The Ideal Teacher
“I believe the ideal teacher would approach any masterpiece that he was presenting to his class almost as if he had never seen it before.”1…
Educational Aims
The educational aims of a good teacher are less about training than they are about transforming. The former is aimed at doing while the latter…
Entrepreneurial Teachers
Entrepreneurial teachers exchange the security of the school for the freedom and responsibility to build their own unique brand as a teacher and to market…
Wisdom for the Classroom
Teachers are not in the classroom to be the students’ friend, but teachers should be friendly. Teachers are not in the classroom to be the…
Hurting Healthy Students
Ignaz Semmelweis was an obstetrician at Vienna General—a teaching and research hospital—during the mid-19th century. While Semmelweis worked there, the mortality rate among women in…
On Teaching Well
Welcome to the inaugural post for On Teaching, A daily thought on the art and endeavor of flourishing as an independent, classical Christian teacher. Posts…