In 2015 I entered the CiRCE Apprenticeship–a three-year apprenticeship teaching teachers the mimetic mode of instruction. Within the first few days of my first retreat, I had learned the stages of the mimetic sequence, and by the end of that same week, I was expected to develop and teach a lesson that conformed to those […]
The following post is an introduction to a webinar on May 13 by Marc Hays and Matthew Bianco. Harmony is a liberal art, or as Andrew Kern is wont to say, “a liberating art”—an art that sets its student free in a way that only truth can. Since considering the nature and purpose of a
As teachers in the classical renewal, we’ve grown to love a pedagogy known as “Socratic teaching.” Yet, at a certain point, we realize we have not read many, if any, of Plato’s dialogues. So, we start reading Plato and discover that the source of our beloved pedagogy is not quite who we thought he would
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On seeing the other side and loving your neighbor
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A four-hour flight home. Window seat. Perfect. A bird’s-eye view of the planet. Or perhaps just the clouds. Either way, the window seat of this 737 provides a place to lay my head. Perhaps a nap. Sleeping on a plane is not really sleeping. Whatever it is, it needs its own word. An ugly sounding
I am a Challenge III Director for Classical Conversations. My class of eight and I spend one day together per week going through all six academic subjects. Yesterday in Chemistry, we performed Experiment 3.2 from our textbook which uses a white sheet of paper and a red magic marker to experience the effects of rod
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