I’ve been posting quite a bit on the necessity for formal grammar instruction lately, and I will continue to do so in the days to come, God willing. Grammar is a language study, one of the three liberal arts. The first. Then comes logic or dialectic. And then rhetoric. For Grammar I have urged people […]
Richard Weaver on Logic and Rhetoric, with a few applications to Debate Read More »
The main lesson about the climategate scandal is that you can’t put excessive authority in individual entities. You can’t trust any body with too much power. That’s the lesson of our economic crisis too. So why the rush to expand those bodies at the very moment when we are paying such a heavy price for
When I conduct teacher training, my goal is as simple as I can possibly make it. I want the teachers who sit through it (and stand, and move around, and gather in groups of three and four, and talk) to better understand classical education. Beause it is classical education we are talking about, I care
