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Author Archives: Joshua Gibbs
The Proverbial Guide To Christmas Gift-Giving
“It’s the thought that counts” is something people say when they get a lousy gift. Should they, though? The latest episode of Proverbial is out now.
Introduction To Ambient Music
Ambient music is born of a rather simple premise: switching the foreground with the background. Sonically, there are many “backgrounds” upon which our lives carry out, the most common of which is simply the collective sound of nature itself: wind, rain, the roar of the ocean, flowing water, thunder, the chatter of insects, birdsong, theContinue reading “Introduction To Ambient Music”
What “Top Gun: Maverick” Gets Right About Education
“Top Gun: Maverick is a gazillion dollar action movie, but most of the film takes place in a school. It’s an elite flight school for fighter pilots, sure, but a school nonetheless, and the relationship between the teacher and his students in the film is strikingly free of modern classroom cliches. For starters, the teacher in TopContinue reading “What “Top Gun: Maverick” Gets Right About Education”
Where I’m Calling From
The Tenuous Earth
It is interesting that we describe things happening “in heaven” or “in hell,” and yet things happen “on earth.” Earth is not an enclosed place, which is to say it is open to both heaven and hell.
Theory Vs Experience
“At the moment, a good deal of what passes as instruction in classical pedagogy is mere theory, not experience or common sense, and this is because there are relatively few veteran teachers have with big platforms in the classical Christian movement. Instead: consultants, administrators, college profs, and bloggers. Give me the ten biggest names inContinue reading “Theory Vs Experience”
My Strategy Is Simple: Tell It Like It Is
“At the moment, there are so many classical Christian schools hiring that whoever writes job postings simply has to assume stiff competition. That’s not happening, though. Classical Christian schools are still writing job postings as though classical Christian education is a small, scrappy movement for idealists and fringe weirdos who will be happy with anythingContinue reading “My Strategy Is Simple: Tell It Like It Is”
A Golden Apple: The Gilderoy Lockhart Of Classical Christian Education
The Gilderoy Lockhart of classical Christian education isn’t a man.
Old Facebook Work
Back when I had a Facebook account, I made dozens of these. People seemed to like them. Here are a few of the old ones.
There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity. 