The following dialogue is an imagined conversation with my father and does not represent my actual father’s views. Daughter: I’ve been contemplating something for a while now and am not sure what I think I should do. I’d appreciate your advice if you have any. Dad: If I have any to give, it’s yours. What …
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A teacher recently asked me for a list of writing rules I use as a professional editor. Grammatical mistakes aside, I find myself making the same edits consistently. In case you too want to clean up your writing – or your students – I’ve listed below the rules I use as a writer and editor. …
Much of “education” has become the lengthy, dull shadow of the factory system. We want predictable, consistent results so we demand expensive, complex methods. But I must ask: how can the logos be confined to method? Ought we to try? Consider the following quotes from those who wondered the same: “When a workman is unceasingly …
Education: an Art or a Method? An Invitation to Contemplation Read More »
In Norms and Nobility, Hicks notes Socrates’ use of the term dialectic, “the form of the activity of thinking – the mind’s habit of challenging the thoughts and observations originating in itself or in other minds and of engaging in a desultory dialogue with itself until the issues are resolved.” This process of discovery lies …
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