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The Clean Sea Breeze of the Centuries: Literary Experience as Perspective on Culture
The Clean Sea Breeze of the Centuries: Literary Experience as Perspective on Culture

One of the primary benefits of reading literature is that it allows us to inhabit another person’s experiences, to see the world through other eyes, and to perceive it with other minds, and in so doing, broaden our own limited experience… Continue Reading

Date posted06/16/2016


Panel with Makoto Fujimura and Andy Crouch
Panel with Makoto Fujimura and Andy Crouch

Session recording from Summer Conference 2016. Continue Reading

Date posted06/16/2016


Culture Care
Culture Care

Session recording from Summer Conference 2016. Continue Reading

Date posted06/16/2016


On Stuttering
On Stuttering

Hear fellow Triviumites: Dr. Schmitt, tutors, parents, friends, alumni, students, and seniors, all those gathered by the all-wise Word of God to this place at this time, Greetings! Many, many years ago, when I was a student here at… Continue Reading

Date posted01/1/2016


“What’s in a Name?”
“What’s in a Name?”

All education is learning to name rightly, as Adam named the animals.” — Richard Weaver Ideas Have Consequences “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” We know what Shakespeare was getting at… Continue Reading

Date posted01/1/2016


More Than a Subject: the Purpose, Place and Power of Language
More Than a Subject: the Purpose, Place and Power of Language

Picture a city, established long ago through the wisdom and virtue of those who founded and built it, but gradually weakened by the long neglect of that wisdom andvirtue. Now it finds itself assaulted by a tyrannical and temperamental… Continue Reading

Date posted01/1/2016


Why Latin? Learn it for the Hypallage!
Why Latin? Learn it for the Hypallage!

For several years now, Latin has been making a steady and decided comeback. Not just classical schools, but private schools of various stripe as well as some suburban public schools, inner-city schools, and everything in between have Latin… Continue Reading

Date posted01/1/2016


What Hath Athens to Do with This Cafeteria? Debate, Rhetoric, and Psychagogia
What Hath Athens to Do with This Cafeteria? Debate, Rhetoric, and Psychagogia

You’re sitting on an uncomfortable plastic bench. You rest “spreading” (speed reading) and technical debate jargon. your arms on an equally uncomfortable plastic table. You The bad habits acquired through participation in these note the… Continue Reading

Date posted01/1/2016


Bless and Curse Not: a Path to Loving Words Well
Bless and Curse Not: a Path to Loving Words Well

The Bible is rich with teachings about the work of our words, from lines of poetry to pastoral exhortation, from wisdom proverbs to prophetic utterances. The psalmists remind us that the tongue and lips are for the praise of God and not… Continue Reading

Date posted01/1/2016


Classical Christian Education and the Future of Science
Classical Christian Education and the Future of Science

Classical Christian educators are often asked how their curriculum prepares students for jobs in science and technology. History shows that while classical education prepares its graduates for any profession, it was central in the creation… Continue Reading

Date posted10/1/2015


Evolution and Reductionism
Evolution and Reductionism

In our world,” said Eustace, “a star is a huge ball of flaming gas.” “Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of.” -C.S. Lewis in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader The dilemma of modern humans… Continue Reading

Date posted10/1/2015


Recovering the Nature of Science: Some Guiding Principles and Practices for Middle School
Recovering the Nature of Science: Some Guiding Principles and Practices for Middle School

Confessions and Repentance “Mr. F, can we blow something up today?” When I began teaching middle school science nine years ago, a certain sixth grade boy asked me this question at the beginning of almost every class. It was earth science… Continue Reading

Date posted10/1/2015