The modern educator draws too neat and stiff a distinction between lecture and discussion. A good teacher lectures during discussion, discusses during lecture. The line which separates the two is not nearly as neat as we think. Lecture is the authority of the teacher; discussion is the autonomy of the student. Obviously, these things needContinue reading “Lecture Needs Discussion; Discussion Needs Lecture”
Category Archives: Everyone Needs A Hobby
One Shelf
A reader recently asked what books I would include in a “concise” library which could fit on a single shelf. When I began putting the list together, I had it in mind to distinguish between books I would choose simply because I enjoy teaching them and books I would choose for pleasure. The longer IContinue reading “One Shelf”
Heliocentrism
In his well known speech on order from Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida, Ulysses claims that the sun sits “amidst” the other planets and “corrects the ill aspects of planets evil.” While Ulysses does not believe the sun is at the center of the solar system, the geocentrist does believe the sun is at the centerContinue reading “Heliocentrism”
Gibbs At Greyshot Arch
Noted
The sorts of people who are terribly interested in what the Church Fathers said about wealth and poverty are never very interested in what they said about marriage and gender.
Fantino
I was watching the 90s channel on Pluto TV this evening and Weezer’s “Say It Ain’t So” video came on. It reminded me of high school, when someone might have asked me to explain myself–my purpose in the world, my ethos, my intentions, my soul–and I could have played a single four-minute song which moreContinue reading “Fantino”
A Good Sign
This year’s ACCS lineup.
Poetry: After Luther’s Commentary on Ecclesiastes
Making Up a Room For Grief by Joshua Gibbs Lest I be surprised and over thrown as though by a family of five arriving suddenly before dawn announcing a twelve year residency in my tiny house I have decided to begin making up a room for Grief I do not know when he will comeContinue reading “Poetry: After Luther’s Commentary on Ecclesiastes”
Preview
Thursday night: the dangers of Patreon intellectuals, how the wellness industry has spread into private education, the feel-good flattery of bloggers whose ad revenue depends on telling everyone, “Society demands too much of people like you,” and more. Sign up for the GibbsClassical.com mailing list for a link to “Intellectual Honesty in an Age ofContinue reading “Preview”
There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity. 