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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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The Flow of Thought, Part 2: The Joy of Memory
In my last article “The Flow of Thought, Part 1: Training the Attention for Happiness’ Sake” I drew a connection between Aristotle’s view that happiness is the chief goal…
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New to School: 5 Principles for Starting the Year Well
Have you ever been new to a school? Often there are awkward days trying to find new friends. You feel like there’s an opportunity to turn over a…
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The Flow of Thought, Part 1: Training the Attention for Happiness’ Sake
It may seem strange to look to modern psychology for support of classical education. After all, it’s the vagaries of modern thought that have got us into this…
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