Articles tagged Rhetoric
Defeating the Integration Monster
by Matt
Tuesday, 04 June, 2013
categories: Classical Christian Education, Homeschooling Life, Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Tuesday, 04 June, 2013
categories: Classical Christian Education, Homeschooling Life, Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
I’m going to ask you to trust me on this. It feels harder than it is, and what I am going to explain will sound too easy compared to what you are feeling, but it is this easy. First, let me share my background with you. I joined Classical Conversations with two...
How Leading a Gigantic Socratic Dialogue Taught Me to Lead Smaller Socratic Dialogues
In early April, I traveled with my Challenge IV class to Staunton, Virginia’s Blackfriar’s Theater to see Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar on stage. The night before the play, we met with a couple of other Challenge groups at Youth Development Inc.’s lodge for fellowship,...
Skills versus Subjects
Classical education is a “curious thing,” viewed from the perspective of a traditional educator. Traditional education emphasizes acquiring knowledge of a host of subjects through the passing of a multitude of classes en route to receiving a diploma. Classical...
My Classical Journey with the Magi
Last year, I had the opportunity to study T.S. Eliot's poem "The Journey of the Magi" with a high school student whom I was tutoring. I had read the poem before and my graduate school roommate was an Eliot aficionado, so I felt reasonably confident as I approached the...
Changing the Grammar of Science
When teaching by the Trivium, we usually take the grammar for granted. While we must take the grammar of a subject for granted when we learn a new subject, sometimes we must also re-evaluate the grammar of what we have learned and develop a new one based on a better...