Exordium
How to Teach Writing, Part 1
by Brett Vaden
What is the best method for teaching students how to communicate their ideas in writing? This question has mystified many a teacher and parent.
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The Blog of the Classical Latin School Association
by Brett Vaden
What is the best method for teaching students how to communicate their ideas in writing? This question has mystified many a teacher and parent.
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by Brett Vaden
Between 10 and 16 years of age, boys growing up among the Australian Aborigines are sent out to survive on their own in the wilderness, marking their transition to manhood. This rite of passage has been called “walkabout.”
Sister Miriam Joseph was a member of the Sisters of the Holy Cross. She earned her doctorate at Columbia University and served as professor of English at St. Mary’s College from 1931 to 1960. She learned the trivium from Mortimer Adler, who instructed her and the teaching staff at St. Read more…
by Martin Cothran
Someone wrote me recently about being admonished by a friend for recommending that her friend’s daughter read the fantasy books of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. The books contained magic and witchcraft and her friend felt that this would only encourage an interest in such things.
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Over the past year the media has been reporting general discontent with the state of higher education, particularly its cost. Politicians have noticed this too and are trying to find governmental ways to address it.
When you hear a school is a ‘Christian’ school, what does that mean? There are a few popular misconceptions about what makes a Christian school ‘Christian.’