Joshua Gibbs

More Saying About Childrearing

The man who only praises his son will be the only man who praises his son.

Sayings About Childrearing

There is more hope for a wildly disobedient boy whose parents admit it than for a mildly disobedient boy whose parents deny it. If a mother makes excuses for her son, there is a little hope for him; if his father makes excuses for him, there is none.

There Really Are Quite A Few Ambient Composers Who Out-Zimmer Hans Zimmer

Thoughts On Sheltering Children

“The world stands to have a far tighter grip on teenagers than it does on little children, and yet many parents I speak with basically give up on governing their sons and daughters around 8th or 9th grade. They give them phones and video games and glumly report at parent teacher conferences that their childrenContinue reading “Thoughts On Sheltering Children”

One Of The Most Generous Poems

Christmas Party At The South Danbury Church by Donald Hall December twenty-firstwe gather at the white Church festoonedred and green, the tree flashinggreen-red lights beside the altar.After the children of Sunday Schoolrecite Scripture, sing songs,and scrape out solos,they retire to dress for the finale,to perform the pageantagain: Mary and Joseph kneelingcradleside, Three Kings,shepherds and shepherdesses.Continue reading “One Of The Most Generous Poems”

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Thoughts On Homework

“The teacher who does not use class time well—the teacher who only needs five minutes to account for all the material a sick student missed in a sixty minute class—has no right to ever assign homework. Teachers who want their students to live full, rich lives have to steward their class time better than that.”Continue reading “Thoughts On Homework”

One Good One

It would make for an interesting list: Wretched Bands That Have One Uncharacteristically Lovely Song. I think “Blackmail” lovely. There’s nothing else in the Swans catalogue that sounds anything like it. The rest is all lip-curlingly awful. But this one, this one is something else.

The 6 O’Clock News

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”― Voltaire

Webinar On December 6th

You can register here to attend “Ecclesiastes: What The Strangest Book In The Bible Has To Teach Us About Classical Education.”