Joshua Gibbs

You Are Obligated To Respect Others, Not To Make Them Feel Respected

“A humble man trains himself to feel respect when he is shown conventional signs of respect, while an arrogant man is unwilling to train his feelings and instead demands others train their actions around his feelings. The idea that anyone is morally obligated to make others feel respected is just godless relativism dressed up inContinue reading “You Are Obligated To Respect Others, Not To Make Them Feel Respected”

Sayings

“A brother offended is not easily won,” and a brother easily offended is never won.

This Is The Most Underrated Record Of The Last 20 Years

“Do what you gotta do/ and don’t misunderstand me”

Sayings

A prudent man with a backbone will always be a wild card.

Quit Asking Potential Teachers About Their “Personal Philosophy of Education.”

Skip asking potential teachers about their “personal philosophy of education.” That won’t tell you anything about them. Ask them to write a description of a school which calls itself classical, thinks of itself as classical, but isn’t. How have they fooled themselves? What allows the illusion to persist? When is the illusion likely to beContinue reading “Quit Asking Potential Teachers About Their “Personal Philosophy of Education.””

Resolutions For Classical Schools

This year, resolve to not pray that God would “help us all to have a good time tonight.” This year, resolve to not call your students “you guys.” Your name isn’t Madison and you are not a Chili’s waitress. This year, resolve to use the word “prayerfully” in ways that do not involve asking peopleContinue reading “Resolutions For Classical Schools”

My Favorite Song By…

Miles Davis: “It Never Entered My Mind” The Beatles: “The Long and Winding Road” Oasis: “Slide Away” The Rolling Stones: “Emotional Rescue” Nirvana: “Something In The Way” U2: “Ultra Violet (Light My Way)” The Clash: “Straight To Hell” Tom Petty: “Walls (Circus)” R.E.M.: “At My Most Beautiful” The Cure: “All Cats Are Grey” Simon &Continue reading “My Favorite Song By…”

Modern Obsessions

Tom: For the next part of our meeting, I think we should break up into small groups. Harry: There’s only four of us. Tom: Still.

Merely Asking Tough Questions Won’t Do Much Good

“Weak teachers want asking tough questions to be enough because it deflects their own moral responsibility to speak the truth and places it back on students. Tough questions can unsettle a student from complacency and make him pliable, but tough questions are incapable of forming a student. What forms a student is tough answers.” -from Asking Tough QuestionsContinue reading “Merely Asking Tough Questions Won’t Do Much Good”

A Matter Of Taste Vol. II

A sequel to A Matter of Taste. Perfectly suited to entertaining, cooking, decorating, unwinding, and eveninging, but with an autumnal mood.