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…
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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…
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…
Education and Fallacy of Technological Progress
David Hicks rightly notes that the classical educator sees, as one of his aims, educating the student both for the world’s fight and for the…
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…
The First Thanksgiving
Our harvest being gotten in, our governor sent four men on fowling, that so we might after have a special manner rejoice together after we…
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 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…
Leisure and Music in Education
Aristotle followed Plato, was his student, in fact. And he joined his teacher is asserting the music was a necessary part of one’s education because…