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…
Tag: Classical Christian Education
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…
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…