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“By now, there is little point asking teaching candidates to write a personal philosophy of education. Anyone who has spent ten minutes browsing classical school websites can cobble together an adequate series of statements about virtue, the “image of God,” and the seven liberal arts. Here are five better questions to ask.” -“Five Questions ToContinue reading “Five Questions To Ask Every Teaching Candidate”

“Student: My handwriting is naturally messy. I can’t help it. It isn’t fair that you graded me down on this week’s essay simply because my handwriting was messy. I can’t help it. Besides, don’t my ideas matter more than my handwriting? Gibbs: What do you mean your handwriting is “naturally messy”? Student: No matter howContinue reading “Does Handwriting Matter?”

“Father: My son has been struggling with his grades, as you know, and there are probably some things his mother and I could do on that front, but I think there’s a bigger problem with your class. Gibbs: What is that problem? Father: Well, Raiden is convinced that you don’t like him.” -from my latestContinue reading “My Son Thinks The Problem Is That You Just Don’t Like Him”

“If you learned that Fox News was producing a five-part documentary series which described the merits of classical Christian education, what would your response be? Choose one or more of the following options.“ -from my latest for CiRCE

“Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” -Solomon After nearly a month off, a new episode of Proverbial is available now.

“I put together a Bible class that does what few Bible classes do: cover the Bible, read the Bible. I spend half the class reading through the story books of the Old Testament (four chapters every day), then the boys spend ten minutes writing summaries of what they’ve heard, and then a few minutes readingContinue reading “Doing The Unthinkable”

“A Charlie Brown Christmas insists the problem is not with Christmas, but with us. Christmas doesn’t need to be fixed. We do. While we tend to remember all the comments about ‘commercialism’ made in the film, in the end, A Charlie Brown Christmas asks those who complain about Christmas commercialism to quit soapboxing and sing aContinue reading “The Enduring Appeal Of “A Charlie Brown Christmas””

“Do a little digging and you will find the About Us section of most classical Christian school websites is really not all that different from non-classical Christian school websites. However, one gets the distinct impression that Bobby McGee is not trying to win any popularity contests. At present, the students at St. Francis Classical doContinue reading “The Next Generation Of Classical Educators Is Here”

“The teacher has only to take stock of his soul as class begins and consider all that God has lately asked him to ponder through the divinely appointed accidents, epiphanies, and confrontations of the day. A teacher doesn’t need to stretch a chapter in Pride & Prejudice in order to talk about jealousy, gossip, broken relationships withContinue reading “How To Teach The Same Books Over And Over Again”