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…
Tag: Classical Christian Education
Stop Saying “Can’t”
Annie Sullivan was a classical educator who began teaching Helen Keller when Keller was only six years old. Sullivan used fingerspelling, a tedious method of…
Predictably Unpredictable
There is one sense in which the teacher should be predictable: well-prepared lesson plans, punctuality, grading standards, cheerfulness, orderly classroom, etc. But there is another…
Playing Down Will Not Get Us There
In his book, Study Smart: A Christian Guide to Academic Success, John Seel argues, Christian schools celebrate Lewis, Tolkien, and Chesterton, but we somehow give…
A Christian Paideia
If Aristotle, who was a pagan and a philosopher too, painted such a picture among men who were not holy and learned in the Scriptures,…
Questions for Teachers
A half-dozen questions for teachers to ask themselves before teaching their next class: What does a grade in my class measure: effort or achievement? What…
Dumbing Us Down
Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist; it should furnish you with an original spirit with which to…
Three Principles for Effective Teaching
The laws that govern good teaching can be understood similarly to the way Jesus explained that the entire law could be boiled down to two…
The Answer to the Oldest Question in Education
There is a single question every teacher will eventually hear, and every student will be tempted to ask: Why do we have to learn this?…
The Process of Inquiry
There is a process of inquiry that is indispensable for unearthing human knowledge and only the person whose mental habits conform to this process can…