Classical educators describe three tools of learning, necessary for a child to grow into the power of his mind, to train his mind to think rightly. They are grammar, dialectic, and rhetoric, and correspond to three stages of learning. This education theory stretches back to classical antiquity – ancient Greece and Rome – when it […]
I talk a lot about teaching in such a way so that a child is given the power of their mind. What do I mean by the power of the mind? I first ran across this concept in an essay by professor of English and Classics, Richard Mitchell, Why Good Grammar? (Read the whole thing; it […]
ON GOOD BOOKS 2015 mar 16 ON GOOD BOOKS: WHATSOEVER THINGS ARE TRUE 2015 mar 23 ON GOOD BOOKS: WHATSOEVER THINGS ARE TRUE PART TWO 2015 mar 31 Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good […]
WHAT IS EDUCATION? 2013 apr 22 THE HEART WHICH LOVES VIRTUE 2013 apr 29 I had written, on the Nothing New Press Facebook page: “I believe in teaching foundations thoroughly: spending maximum time on a few necessary subjects that are designed to instill a love of learning, and create life-long independent learners, by unlocking the […]
ON GOOD BOOKS 2015 mar 16 ON GOOD BOOKS: WHATSOEVER THINGS ARE TRUE 2015 mar 23 Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on […]
ON GOOD BOOKS 2015 mar 16 Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things. Phi 4:8 “True” is in Greek, Strong’s G227, […]