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Handwork: Fostering Excellence Through the Habit of Creating
Guest post by Joleen Steel, Classical Christian Educator and Director of Camping Stick Kids We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a…
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Building Ratio: Training Students to Think and Learn for Themselves
In 1947, medievalist Dorothy Sayers took the podium at Oxford University and delivered a lecture that would launch a referendum on modern methods of education. It took time,…
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Bloom’s Taxonomy and the Importance of Objectives: 3 Blessings of Bloom’s
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat.“I don’t…
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Training the Prophetic Voice, Part 2: Speaking Truth to Power
Among the primary aims of our educational movement is to train our students in the art of rhetoric so that they can contribute meaningfully to the major cultural…
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Work, Toil, and the Quest for Academic Rigor
American educational culture is obsessed with the idea of academic rigor. It shows up on marketing materials, core value statements, and school comparison charts. Rigor has become the…
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Bloom’s Taxonomy and the Purpose of Education
One of the major themes in the classical education renewal movement has been to challenge the utilitarianism of modern education. The purpose of education, the argument has gone,…
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