Author Archives: Joshua Gibbs

You’re really better off trying as hard as you can and losing. Why? The latest episode of Proverbial can help.

“Classical education is growing rapidly, which means the average school has teachers who have been around for ten years, five years, and five months. They’re not all on the same page—there’s no way around this, but it needs to be acknowledged. The way to get them all on the same page isn’t to make themContinue reading “Three Ideas For Productive Faculty Meetings”

“A student is not above his teacher.” -Jesus Christ “A teacher is not above his students.” -Modern educators

Proverbs is addressed to “my son.” In fact, “my son” is addressed more than twenty times. There are nearly fifty questions asked in the book of Proverbs. They are all rhetorical. Every one of them.

“Reading Paradise Lost a second time proves it was read rightly the first time. The second read proves the reader is digging, humble, obedient. It is our need to dig into the book, to be humble and silent before it, which has made it famous.” -from The Glory Of A Second Read: What If We Taught SomeContinue reading “What If We Taught Some Books Twice?”