“My child has a strong walk with the Lord” is a thing we often say, however, “Your child has a strong walk with the Lord” is not a thing we are often told. Why is this? My latest for CiRCE is a dialog about the matter.
Author Archives: 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.
There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity. 