Articles tagged Rhetoric
Tell Me Something Good
by Cara
Tuesday, 18 March, 2014
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Tuesday, 18 March, 2014
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
“What could I say that would matter?”
That was all I could think about as I stood before a crowd of 100 Haitians—all homeless, all living in tents. Their brown eyes pierced me—waiting, wondering, and desperately looking to me for something.
I had been on a mission...
The Right Tools for Raising a Discoverer
by Matt
Monday, 17 March, 2014
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11), Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Monday, 17 March, 2014
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11), Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Last month, I wrote an article called, “How to Raise a Discoverer.” This month, I want to expand on that idea. Toward the end of the first article, I argued that Dorothy Sayers, Leigh Bortins, and Classical Conversations have equipped parents with the necessary tools...
What Is Classical Conversations?
And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Benoni: but his father called him Benjamin. -- Genesis 35:18 (KJV)
This seemingly inconsequential detail reveals to us the importance of names. With her dying breath, Rachel...
Why Write? Rhetoric Across the Curriculum
by Kate
Thursday, 06 March, 2014
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Thursday, 06 March, 2014
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Writing well is an undisputed goal of excellent education. However, as with all things rich in character, the process of good writing bequeaths an even greater blessing. When we study formal writing using the five canons of rhetoric, we are also teaching our students...
The “Official Which” and the Canon of Rhetoric
by Matt
Thursday, 06 March, 2014
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Thursday, 06 March, 2014
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
We engage in the art of rhetoric in order to persuade others to the true, the good, or the beautiful. Any act of persuasion that seeks to move someone toward the false, the bad, or the ugly—intentional or not—is an act of sophistry. What often moves or persuades...