Joshua Gibbs

This Is What I Think Cool Is

Tips

Today, one of my more capable rhetoric students said she practiced her speeches in different accents, which made her more aware of the words she was speaking. Quite clever. Such awareness is often quite difficult for rookie writers, so I was doubly impressed.

What To Teach, Or How?

My latest for CiRCE concerns that most pernicious of issues within classical schools: Do we teach students what to think or how to think?

Proverbs: On Politicking

Parent: The grade you gave my son on his essay seems kind of subjective. Teacher: No, it seems kind of low, and if I raised the grade it would be even more subjective.

Proverbs: On Teaching

“Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.”― Jacques Barzun

This Headline, This Picture

This is what The Wall Street Journal thinks homeschooling looks like.

Proverbs: Class Work

Never ask students to do work in pairs that they could easily do alone.

Sizing Up A Classical School In Less Than Ten Minutes

If you only had ten minutes to assess the health of a classical school, what would you do? What would you want to see? Who would you talk to? My latest for CiRCE deals with these very questions.

Lately

I have forced myself to listen to beautiful music lately, though this one goes down quite easily.

Foundational

One of the books which inspired The Grand Budapest Hotel. I just began it this morning for the third time in as many years.