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4 Tips to Optimize Effort in the Classroom: A Classical Education Take on Cognitive Load Theory
The process of learning anything is quite complex. And yet there is an intuitive sense most people have of what learning looks like, even if one struggles to…
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Mastery over Speed: The Lost Art of Cultivating Virtue
It has become a truism that we live in a fast-paced world. In less than a century, modern technology has enabled us to convert a planet with a…
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3 Practices to Help Classical Educators Make the Most of Positive Psychology
Among the modern areas of research we at Educational Renaissance work on is the area of positive psychology. While it is not a recent development in psychology, it…
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The Soul of Education, Part 3: Aristotle’s Hylomorphic Soul and the Virtuous Mind
In our series on the soul of education, we’re investigating historical views of the soul that have an impact on both the purpose and the methods of education.…
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To Belbury or St. Anne’s? A Vision for Moral Education in C.S. Lewis’ That Hideous Strength
Note: This article contains spoilers from C.S. Lewis’ That Hideous Strength. In the final book of the Ransom trilogy, That Hideous Strength (Scribner, 1945), C.S. Lewis presents his…
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Slow Productivity in School: Part 4, Obsess Over Quality
In this series on Slow Productivity in School, we’ve been exploring the paradox of festina lente (“hasten slowly”). When it comes to the work of learning, sometimes you…
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