10 Things I Learned in My First Year As a College Professor
I just finished my first year of teaching at the college level. I spent the first three quarters of the year teaching an introductory humanities…
Wishes or Widgets
Alexander Pushkin wrote a fairy tale called “The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish”, which is based on an older telling by the Brothers…
Ep. 36 – Why New England Needs Classical Education
This is Episode 36 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog sponsored by Kepler Education. In this episode, Sarah Abbott and Tim Knotts of…
3 YA Books For Readers of Greek Mythology
World mythologies and regional folktales have always served as source material for modern fantasy, with some (like Greek or Celtic myths) having well-established influence and…
Rescuing Rational Public Discourse Through the Renewal of Rhetoric
What follows is not meant to be a political rant or op-ed. It is an observation followed by the assertion of a simple solution to…
Ep. 35 – Andrew Kern: What Happened to Classical Education?
This is Episode 35 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education. In this episode, Scott Postma talks with Andrew Kern of…
Ep. 34 – The Growing Spotlight on Classical Christian Education
This is Episode 34 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education. In this episode, Scott Postma sits down with Joffre Swait…
Ep. 33 – Jake Litwin on Apologetics and Integrated Humanities
This is Episode 33 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education. In this episode, Scott Postma sits down with Jake Litwin…
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…