Subversive Learning

Homeschool at the beach

I am really enjoying homeschooling. The past three weeks have been dizzying, frustrating, and stressful, but also…

You are never too old to set a new goal or dream a new dream

Thoughts on the purpose of education

Twelve weeks into this grand experiment and we have come to our second break. I’m looking forward to it but not in the same way I was for…

MLK: ‘Intelligence plus character — that is the goal of true education’

Remembering

Grammar — Mythos — Imagining the Real

Grammar is the cradle of all philosophy, and in a manner of speaking, the first nurse of the whole study of letters.

• John of Salisbury, 1159, The Metalogicon

Credulitas: Belief Must Precede All Instruction

A really thoughtful post from The Circe Institute. From the article:

In such moments of disbelief, students can learn nothing. And when I encounter their disbelief, I do my best to disabuse them of it, but many times it…