June 8, 2011

This week’s Audio Weekly originally ran on our site in December and comes from Dr. Paula Flint, the head-of-school of The Flint Academy, a classical Christian school in Arlington, TX. This talk was presented at the 2010 CiRCE Conference. Dr. Flint will, once again, be presenting at the 2011 CiRCE conference.

You are teaching, say, King Lear. You want to get the kids involved in the story without distracting them with analytical stuff (what I have come to call “dead puppies”). So you ask, do you think King Lear should have divided his kingdom among the three daughters? Or “do you think Lear was a fool?” …

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