Classical Educator

Research-informed educator interested in the liberal arts, theology, philosophy, literature and grammar.

[Classical Educator @ClassicalLogosJ]

@JamesAFurey I’m sure they enjoyed diagramming their predicate nominatives. Do you teach in a classical school?

[Classical Educator @ClassicalLogosJ]

@insomniacgames Akin to the US, a profanity filter in the accessibility settings for UK users would be grand.

[Cultivated Soul @CultivatedBooks]

Everyone thinks education is about earning a degree.

It’s not.

20 books on what a good education
should accomplish.

1. Meno, Plato
Can virtue be taught?

2. Republic (Books II–VII), Plato
What should education aim at?

3. Politics (Book VIII), Aristotle
What should citizens be educated for?

4. Institutes of Oratory, Quintilian
What does an education look like for an orator?

5. De Magistro, Augustine
What is the teacher’s role in helping a student learn?

6. "On the Education of Children,"
Michel de Montaigne
Why is the goal of education to form thinkers?

7. The Great Didactic, John Amos Comenius
What should be taught to everyone, and how?

8. Some Thoughts Concerning Education, John Locke
What habits should education form?

9. Émile, Rousseau
How should children be educated?

10. The Idea of a University, John Henry Newman
What does higher education aim at?

11. Democracy and Education, John Dewey
What should be the relationship between education and society?

12. The Higher Learning in America, Robert Maynard Hutchins
What should a university education be for?

13. The Abolition of Man, C. S. Lewis
What happens when education abandons objective values?

14. Education at the Crossroads, Jacques Maritain
How should a liberal education shape man?

15. Teacher in America, Jacques Barzun
What are teachers supposed to do?

16. "The Lost Tools of Learning," Dorothy Sayers
Are we teaching the right things the right way?

17. A History of Education in Antiquity, H. I. Marrou,
What did Greek and Roman education look like?

18. Leisure: The Basis of Culture, Josef Pieper
Is education more than preparation for work?

19. The Paideia Proposal, Mortimer Adler
What is the best education for all?

20. The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom
What has gone wrong with university education?

tolle lege

[Classical Educator @ClassicalLogosJ]

@perennialmystic Self-refuting statements to me. If we apply Aurelius’ own logic to these propositions, he’s giving an opinion, not fact: perspective, not the truth.

[Classical Educator @ClassicalLogosJ]

@Heftyparsnip @Miss_Snuffy @nathancofnas This seems like mere assumption, rather than a provable fact: an apparent case of begging the question. Where’s the observable, testable and repeatable proof to support this assertion? How does impulse control determine whether one race is superior in intelligence to another?

[Classical Educator @ClassicalLogosJ]

@Heftyparsnip @Miss_Snuffy @nathancofnas If anything, these results would seem to debunk Cofnas’ underlying claims about race differences, suggesting that, with the right variables, all races—regardless of their background—not only have the potential to do well, but also come out as decent human beings. (3/3)

[Classical Educator @ClassicalLogosJ]

@Heftyparsnip @Miss_Snuffy @nathancofnas Katherine’s moral preconceptions about the world, which seem to have a clear Christian impulse, have quite patently debunked the claims of IQ differences in an inner-city school that is competing with—and even exceeding—grammar and independent schools in the UK. (2/3)

[Classical Educator @ClassicalLogosJ]

@AaronThackuelj @TrevorSheatz What is reality? And how do you know your perception of it is valid in order to render it non-delusional?