September 30, 2010

Image via Wikipedia “It’s interesting now that they made me write a philosophy of education and not an apology.” Lauralee Holbert, CiRCE Apprentice reflecting on what she was taught in teachers’ college

“Poetry cannot, as Matthew Arnold fondly hoped, take the place of religion…What it can do – when fully understood and articulated – is to restore human feeling. It can become a discipline for that ordering of the soul that the Greeks called Paideia.” Dr. Louise Cowan THE CLASSICAL TEACHER teaches differently in at least four