March 23, 2011

Ideas are hard to teach. For one thing, you can’t memorize an idea, you have to undertand it. For another, the understanding might be formed in the mind long before it can be expressed by the mouth. For yet another thing, you can’t measure whether or not a student understands an idea or how well […]

This is a post I added on the Well-Trained Mind Forum in response to a question about Aristotle‘s Organon and Francis Bacon’s Novum Organon. You can follow any dialogue that might develop here. A couple thoughts on teaching these organon: First, they are extremely technical and practical works that should be taught over a couple