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When I served in law enforcement, I often testified in court that my identification of contraband was based on “my training and experience.” What I say below derives from my training and experience as a graduate student in English at a… Continue Reading
What should Christian Classical schools do in order to prepare students most effectively for higher education? At one level, the answers are obvious and have already been given many times. Classical schools often, for example, have staff… Continue Reading
The three “absolutes,” according to classical thought, are the true, the good, and the beautiful. Postmodernists say “there are no absolutes,” insisting that truth, goodness, and beauty are all relative. Christians and cultural… Continue Reading
If the too obvious, so straight branches of Truth and Good are crushed or amputated and cannot reach the light – yet perhaps the whimsical, unpredictable, unexpected branches of Beauty will make their way through and soar up to that very… Continue Reading
Beauty in Music Genesis 2:7 “and the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and he became a living soul.” Rhythms, melodies, harmonies speak to us of immaterial things. The modern… Continue Reading
Ask anyone involved in classical education about the importance of the arts and you will likely meet enthusiasm of a sort usually reserved for pep rallies. But then ask the same person which direction Vermeer’s Geographer is facing… Continue Reading
In the early 1960s, Flannery O’Connor addressed a group of English teachers concerning the aims and methods of teaching fiction. She said that she (as a novelist) and the teachers “should be able to find ourselves enjoying a mutual… Continue Reading
There is a story going on around us. It began before time and reaches to infinity. And it is a story: a sequence of events, not random, but full of meaning. Man plays his part through action; his deliberate movements influence, change, and… Continue Reading
As a theologian, I observe that God has prohibited images in His worship; in large measure because they are non-linguistic. Only language has even a fighting chance of facilitating a correspondence between word and world; image simply… Continue Reading
It is the part of the wise man to order and to judge. — Thomas Aquinas Having loaded my dishwasher, microwaved my coffee, and drifted over to my computer-desk to type this article (forcing me to turn off my Mp3 Latin course) my reflections… Continue Reading
Over the last few years, it has become increasingly common for schools to provide a computer (or access to a computer) to every student. The invention of the iPad has taken this growing trend and, through excellent marketing, turned it… Continue Reading
Perhaps the most helpful acknowledgment toward understanding the very real challenges that we face with technology is that our schools are governed and managed by Boomers II and Gen X who hire Gen X and Gen Y educators to teach Gen Z… Continue Reading
