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December 2020

December 04, 2020

Class with Tea

Make beauty where you can, spending if you must, but be warned of those who...

November 2020

November 03, 2020

God Be Kind To Us (with bonus reference to Ion)

Sometimes we are stupid. At least sometimes I am stupid. I should not confess anyone...

November 02, 2020

Asking a Real Question (A Nod Toward Meno)

A civilization cannot survive for long if it stops asking the right questions. I used...

November 01, 2020

Nobody is Listening: A Falsehood of Our Time

What if nobody is listening? Listening, God help me, is harder for me than is...

October 2020

October 30, 2020

Continuous Wonder: Education for Life

Wonder about difficult, good, true, and beautiful works, but wonder. Few artifacts of human creation...

October 16, 2020

Knowing When You Already Know: the education of Holy Wisdom

Is there value to discussion when you already hold to the truth?* The classical model...

September 2020

September 25, 2020

Leading a Discussion with a Small Group (Almost a Listicle but with a Pickwick Picture to Keep it From Being a Cool Exploitative Listicle)

The group discussion in your class has gotten smaller, pandemic or whatever other reason. If...

September 04, 2020

Asking Questions While Reading: An Example

I am sometimes asked how to prepare a class, or take notes in reading....

August 2020

August 17, 2020

A Good School Knows When To Quit

A good school knows when to quit. Of course, a good school starts by knowing...

August 16, 2020

The Education Called Classical

Classical education is education; everything else is a modification of the normal. Almost all American...

August 02, 2020

Question Everything

Socrates was killed for asking the wrong questions in a city that could not handle...

July 2020

July 25, 2020

Jerusalem meet Athens, Athens meet Jerusalem

The American Declaration of Independence is wise when it appeals both to the truths of...

July 22, 2020

Christ Above All or The Integration of Faith, Values, and Learning: A Midnight Cry (Part 7)

Placing Christ over all, seeking Holy Wisdom, is true education. When I advocate such an...

June 2020

June 21, 2020

A Reading List for This Election (At the Request of a Former Student)

I am a small government conservative, supportive of the free market. More fundamentally, I am...

June 17, 2020

On Commencement

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory,...

May 2020

May 17, 2020

So You Wish to Teach College? More School? What to Do?

Should you keep going to school? If you wish to teach at a college, in...

May 13, 2020

Frank Baum Offers a Means to Keep Sports Going at the University When Things Must Be Cut (Oz on Education)

The Problems of Higher Education Did Not Start Yesterday Remarkably, higher education should focus on...

May 07, 2020

In Which I Discuss the Constantine Strategy With Cool People

Take a listen to Mere Fidelity and a discussion of The Constantine Strategy! I argue...

May 05, 2020

The Fifth Year of the Constantine Strategy

On this the fifth day of the fifth month in the year 2020, The Saint...

April 2020

April 07, 2020

Learning from Thomas During a Pandemic (Guest Voice Jill Bergen 3/3)

For the duration of the pandemic, I have decided to focus on the positive. Dialectic...

April 04, 2020

American Madness (Frank Capra Relevant Today)

If you want some economic advice from a man who got America through the Great...

March 2020

March 30, 2020

Home School Heroes: Thriving, Winning, Doing Our Best, The Temporary Online School

The very imperfect will not be the enemy of the good as a cadre of...

March 27, 2020

Distinctions We Need in Hard Times: Intended versus Unintended Consequences

We cannot talk intelligently about a crisis if we do not have the right vocabulary....

March 25, 2020

Intended versus Unintended Consequences: A Helpful Distinction

Sometimes the right language can help us make better decisions or think more carefully about...

March 13, 2020

Making the Call to Go Online in a Plague Year

To go online in a college dedicated to Oxford style tutorials and discussions is a...

February 2020

February 24, 2020

Full of Wonder

The tension between two things we have good reason to think might be true causes...

February 21, 2020

Plato and Basil: Athens and Jerusalem in Education

Plato gave the ancient world the form of dialectic education in his writings, especially his...

February 20, 2020

Embracing the Tension: Education against Monomania

We have souls in bodies. This duality is difficult to live. Our bodies and our...

February 19, 2020

The Tension in a Good Education

There is a tension in classical, Christian education and this tension is both why our...

February 18, 2020

The Ark of Education

The Church can be the ark of education: taking scholarship and learning into the future...