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This summer, my family and I are moving back to Idaho where I will be the director of The Classical Teaching Institute. A website with full details is coming soon.

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As of today, I have been blogging for CiRCE for ten years. I decided to make a list of my ten favorite articles from over the last decade. You can read that list here.

Just arrived in the mail today.

The latest episode of Proverbial is devoted to the saying, “There’s more than one way to skin a cat,” which I think one of the most misunderstood aphorisms that pretty much everybody’s heard. Download the latest show here.

“How much lecture is necessary?” is a divisive question because there’s really no standard definition of “lecture” among classical educators. Some teachers think a lecture is an uninterrupted 45-minute talk on why Jane Austen didn’t like the city of Bath, which sounds a bit dull and unlikely to incline students to virtue—and the idea thatContinue reading “How Much Lecture Is Necessary?”

You in the hotel business center, printing off MapQuest instructions, amazed at technology these days.

“At the point a school gets to nine or ten students who should have been kicked out years ago, or who should never have been let in to begin with, the problem isn’t the number of families who aren’t missionally aligned. The problem is that the school’s stated rules and goals are not the school’s actual rules and goals.Continue reading “Fencing The Classical Christian Table”