December 30, 2008

Our friends over at Eucharisteo pointed me to this really excellent looking web site where they provide readings of a growing number of great English poems. What I’ve heard is read with an English accent, which seems important to me. Remember that most poetry was originally written with the expectation of public readings, so if […]

Richard Dawkins, a Rabbi, a Catholic, and a minister of education got together to discuss education. No, it’s not the preamble to a joke. It’s an English TV debate about the role of religion in the state schools. This raises a lot of issues people might need to be aware of in the not too

In a refreshing article in Education Next, the excellent education journal of the Hoover Institution, Paul Peterson says: Home schooling is hardly foreign to the American experience. John Locke’s advice to parents in colonial America was to educate their children at home. He could not imagine “what qualities are ordinarily to be got from…a troop

I would guess my opinions on state certification of teachers is not hidden, so maybe I like this article for all the wrong reasons. But I still like it. I cannot respect the notion that something as personal as teaching can be regulated by pure abstractions. My wife and I still laugh about her being

The American Academy near Philadelphia accomplishes classical education at a very high level. Go to their blog and you’ll see an example of the kind of thing a school can be when it keeps its focus and directs its resources wisely. In particular, visit this blog entry and listen to the lecture. Do you see