When I was a child, I thought like a child, and since my mother recognized that she read to me from books that did not condescend to me. In my memory, she read to the four boys who were her sons almost every day, usually from the book of Proverbs. Since it is my memory […]
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I have a very specific process when I approach a writing project. Using the first three canons of Classical Rhetoric, I first write down every idea I have. This is the Invention stage and includes my research stage. Anything that generates an idea—something I read, a conversation I had, a thought that I contemplate, I
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The holy grail of classical education is the integrated curriculum. What a chalice that would be! Two things have kept us from finding it. The first is that we’ve been looking in the wrong place. The second is that there hasn’t been an integrating tool. First, we’ve been looking in the wrong place. Put simply,
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Careful observation has confirmed that there are five paths to writing excellence. Neglect of any one of them will undermine a writer’s potential. They are: The Theoretical path The Practical path The Critical path The Literary Path The Linguistic Path I suspect that some readers may have a visceral reaction to the inclusion of the
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