Digressio

19 essays
Litterae · Digressio Vol. 5Reflections on Reading AloudFor most of history, reading meant reading aloud. How silent reading arrived, and why good books should still be read slowly and aloud.Wes CallihanIn Medias Res · Digressio Vol. 5“A Myriad Eyes”: Creating the Right Kind of ReaderC. S. Lewis proposed judging books by the kind of reading they invite. On forming readers who are neither picky eaters nor gluttons.Christiana HalePoetica · Digressio Vol. 5Why We Need Epic PoetryWhat an epic is, the four marks of the genre, and why a people needs its epic poets.Dr. Joe CarlsonPedagogica · 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 WincklerThema · Digressio Vol. 4Recovering the Discarded Image: Why Study the Ransom Trilogy?C. S. Lewis loved the medieval picture of the heavens. What his Ransom Trilogy does with it, and why that picture is still worth recovering.Christiana HaleIn Medias Res · Digressio Vol. 4The Aeneid as the Quintessential ClassicWhat makes a classic a classic, and why Vergil’s Aeneid is the one all the others answer to.Dr. Scott PostmaPedagogica · 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 PressPoetica · Digressio Express 1“Heaven,” by George HerbertGeorge Herbert’s echo poem, in which each answer is the last syllable of the question.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 Foucachon