Classical Education

108 essays
Pedagogica · Digressio Vol. 5What, Why & How to Teach a FirePlutarch said the mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled. What that means for what we teach, why we teach it and how, with Latin as the example.Reuben JansenThema · Digressio Vol. 5Memory: The Common GuardianWhat Dorothy Sayers said about memory work, read alongside Quintilian, Hugh of St. Victor and Comenius.Mystie WincklerPedagogica · Digressio Vol. 4The Lost Tools of MathIn classical education mathematics is often the Cinderella sister. How the trivium has been applied to math, how it is misapplied, and what teaching for mastery looks like.Ethan DemmeThema · Digressio Vol. 4What Does Jesus Have to Do with STEM?Stephen Hawking declared philosophy dead. Why physics, and every STEM discipline, needs the liberal arts, and what Christianity has to do with it.Dr. Mitch StokesHumanitas · Digressio Vol. 4Eavesdropping on the Great Conversation: Frederick J. Kelly, 1928From the 1928 inaugural address of University of Idaho president Frederick J. Kelly: college is a place to learn how to educate oneself.Roman Roads PressHumanitas · Digressio Vol. 2The Grace of Cultivated DesireDesire is not the enemy. On eros, fidelity, and teaching children to want the right things.David FoucachonHumanitas · Digressio Vol. 2The Face of ManOn gazing at the human face, with Berdyaev and Capon.Joshua GibbsHumanitas · Digressio Vol. 3Eavesdropping on the Great Conversation: John Quincy Adams and His Father, 1780Twelve-year-old John Quincy Adams sends his father an account of his studies for a day, and John Adams answers.Roman Roads PressPedagogica · Digressio Vol. 1Commonplaces: Quotes for CopiousnessSix quotations for a commonplace book, from Samuel Johnson to Livy.Roman Roads PressHumanitas · Digressio Vol. 1Eavesdropping on the Great Conversation: John Adams Urges His Son to Read Thucydides, 1777John Adams writes to his ten-year-old son about the history he most wants him to master.Roman Roads PressClassical EducationDoxological Pedagogy (Part Six)We need to begin this next part of the discussion by further clarifying something that was said toward the end of the previous post. In the Convivio, Dante pictures the liberal arts…Dr. Joe CarlsonClassical EducationDoxological Pedagogy (Part Five)Dante opens the second treatise of the Convivio with an explanation of what has of old been called the quadriga, or the fourfold method of interpretation. This approach seeks to discover (in…Dr. Joe Carlson