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Liberating Education from the Success Syndrome
The quest for success in education is a familiar narrative for students, teachers and home educators alike. Schools especially can often get caught up in the elusive search…
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The Flow of Thought, Part 3: Narration as Flow
It’s been a little while since my last article on the flow of thought, or how Mihayli Csikszentmihalyi’s concept of flow can support the philosophy of classical education.…
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Strategic Instruction: Optimizing Classroom Performance for Small and Large Classes
It is often assumed among administrators, teachers, and parents alike that the smaller the class size, the better the instruction, and consequently, the greater the academic achievement. After…
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So Your Middle Schooler Wants to Go to a Different School ? 3 Strategies for High School Retention
It’s an incontrovertible rule of life: every middle schooler will express a desire to go to a different school than the one they are currently in – any…
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Training in the Arts vs. Teaching Sciences
I have previously written on the classical distinction between an ‘art’ and a ‘science’, but I recently discovered some interesting confirmations of it in Plato and John Milton…
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Educating Future Culture Makers
An experienced educator once taught me that every pedagogy, or method of teaching, assumes a particular view of students. Each view, in turn, is founded on premises about…
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