It is no easy matter to give its proper sustenance to the mind; hard things are said of children, that they have ‘no brains,’ ‘a low order of intellect,’ and so on; many of us are able to vouch for the fine intelligence by children who are fed with the proper mind-stuff; but teachers do […]
This guest post is by Tucker Teague. I do not know if Saint Paul ever developed a detailed educational foundation or curriculum or program in the way that we might today. He may have in person as he spread the Gospel, but he certainly didn’t in his letters. And I doubt he ever founded a
It is too easy to try to teach normative content analytically, especially because that is how we learned and how we are taught to teach. But what might happen if we teach dialectically or mimetically instead? What might go wrong? I think for example of how we tend to teach math and science, both of
Apparently Chuck Colson, the host of “Break Point” and the founder of Prison Fellowship believes in the work we’re doing (and by we I mean all of us, you included). In the video below he discusses the Trivium, the need for “careful argumentation”, and the fact that “modern education fails because it mixes up the
