Oluoch_raballa

Literature | Politics | Culture.
I read systems and question everything.
If it sounds nice, I doubt it. I only believe in evidence.

[Classic Learning Test @CLT_Exam]

What is classical education?

Classical education is like a very large museum with many beautiful, wonder-filled rooms that could be studied over a lifetime. It is a long tradition of education that has emphasized the seeking after of truth, goodness, and beauty and the study of the liberal arts and the great books. What are the liberal arts? They are grammar, logic, rhetoric (the verbal arts of the trivium), arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy (the mathematical arts of the quadrivium). This approach to education also includes the study of Latin. The classical approach teaches students how to learn and how to think.

What makes classical education so effective? It is largely because of its approach to how and when students are taught. Regardless of their learning style, children learn in three phases or stages (grammar, logic or dialectic, and rhetoric), known as the trivium. In the grammar stage (K–6), students are naturally adept at memorizing through songs, chants, and rhymes. If you can get children in this stage to sing or chant something, they will remember it for a lifetime. In the dialectic or logic stage (grades 7–9), teenaged students are naturally more argumentative and begin to question authority and facts. They want to know the “why” of something—the logic behind it. During this stage, students learn reasoning, informal and formal logic, and how to argue with wisdom and eloquence. The rhetoric stage (grades 10–12) is naturally when students become independent thinkers and communicators. They study and practice rhetoric, which is the art of persuasive speaking and effective writing that pleases and delights the listener. Again, it is this approach to teaching students based on their developmental stage that makes this approach so very effective.

It is precisely this kind of education that has produced countless great leaders, inventors, scientists, writers, philosophers, theologians, physicians, lawyers, artists, and musicians over the centuries. Classical education never really disappeared, but it did diminish starting around 1900 with the advent of progressive education. In an effort to restore this most proven form of education, the K–12 liberal arts tradition has been being renewed and expanded again over the last thirty years. More than 500 classical schools (including private and charter schools) have started during that time, and tens of thousands of homeschooling families are educating with the classical approach.

- Dr. Christopher Perrin

[Classic Learning Test @CLT_Exam]

The strangest thing about classical education is how radical ordinary competence now looks.

A 16-year-old who can read a difficult book, write a coherent essay, calculate without reaching for a device, recite a poem, and argue without getting emotional seems exceptional.

None of this was supposed to be exceptional.

[Oluoch_raballa @joluoch55]

@Weyne_west What's this cow-worshipper saying?

[My Self Reliance @myself_reliance]

This is the chicken feed garden.
Most of these raised beds aren’t growing food for us.
They’re growing food for the chickens.
Sorghum on the left — 8 to 12 feet tall with massive seed heads.
Grain for the birds, and the stalks can be turned into sorghum syrup.
Colored corn grown from our own seed for flour and cornmeal.
Not sweet corn. Real working corn.
A few squash and berries for us around the edges.
The orchard handles the rest of our fruit.
Everything else here is chicken feed.
Full video on My Self Reliant Garden → https://t.co/xHTEblKVdz

[Alicia @AliciaAmarilyn]

If I want to grow sufficient tomatos in this zone, im going to have to start my seedlings in January

Next month we will be in the minuses!

[EcoRestoration Alliance @EcoResAlliance]

🌾 Forests aren't the only climate heroes.

Healthy grasslands store enormous amounts of carbon underground, protect biodiversity, reduce erosion, and support millions of people.

We need forests and grasslands.

#Grasslands #ClimateAction #NatureBasedSolutions #SoilCarbon

[VegPlotter.com @veg_plotter]

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[Perma Pastures Farm @permapastures]

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[Cultivated Soul @CultivatedBooks]

Want to read philosophy in the
Roman world?

Start with these 11 books.

1. Lucretius, On the Nature of Things
Lucretius explains Epicurean philosophy:
the world and the soul are made of
atoms, and nature works without the
gods directing it.

2. Cicero, On Duties
Writing to his son, Cicero argues that the
honorable and the useful never truly
conflict. What looks advantageous but
dishonest only looks that way.

3. Seneca, Letters to Lucilius
Seneca tells Lucilius to reclaim his time
from everyone who is stealing it. Life is
long enough if we stop wasting it.

4. Musonius Rufus, Lectures and Sayings
Musonius argues that philosophy has to
be practiced, not just discussed.

5. Epictetus, Discourses
Epictetus argues that our judgments and
choices belong to us, while health,
wealth, reputation, and death do not.

6. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Marcus Aurelius trains himself to accept
what happens, govern his judgments,
and act justly.

7. Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Pyrrhonism
Sextus argues that when equally strong
arguments can be made on both sides,
we should suspend judgment rather
than claim to know.

8. Plutarch, Moralia
Plutarch examines how reason can
govern anger, grief, ambition, and
desire.

9. Plotinus, Enneads
Plotinus argues that everything comes
from the One, and that the soul can
return toward it through
contemplation.

10. Augustine, Confessions
Augustine recounts his sinful life, his
search for truth, and his conversion to
Christianity, asking why the human
heart remains restless until it rests
in God.

11. Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy
Boethius argues that wealth, power,
status, and pleasure cannot give
lasting happiness because Fortune
can take back anything she has given.

tolle lege

[Classic Learning Test @CLT_Exam]

The ultimate educational flex in 2035 will be a teenager who can read Cicero in Latin, quote Shakespeare from memory, explain why Athens lost the Peloponnesian War, solve calculus by hand, and speak intelligently for ten minutes without looking at a screen.

[Oluoch_raballa @joluoch55]

"I want the best for my child."

Then why is every conversation a list of what they're doing wrong?

Constant criticism doesn't produce excellence. It produces adults who never believe they're enough.

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

In Dante's Inferno, people who were neutral in life are treated just as harshly as those who sinned.

These are the "uncommitted" who chose no side. They are rejected by both Heaven *and* Hell.

Lukewarm souls are made to wait forever in the "Vestibule of Hell". They're stung by wasps while they run around in pursuit of a meaningless white banner (in punishment for standing beneath no banner in life).

Even worse, their blood and tears flow from their faces onto the ground to be consumed by maggots. Why?

In Christianity, Christ's blood is shed for man's salvation, and the blood of the martyrs is considered the seed of the Church. To bleed — whether literally or metaphorically — for a worthy cause is a great act of love.

But in the case of the lukewarm, their blood merely feeds maggots. "You shall know them by their fruits," Christ says, but the only "fruit" the lukewarm produce is nourishment for worms.

Dante himself was exiled from his hometown of Florence by a rival faction after years of civil conflict. His dislike of the lukewarm stemmed from those who sat on the sidelines and did nothing while his sentence was handed down — those who let injustice slide and were more concerned with protecting their own lot in life.

Dante doesn't even give them the courtesy of mentioning them by name in his Inferno. The "uncommitted" are all nameless.

His warning to the spineless is thus:

Stand for nothing, and nothing is what you'll become.

[Ja Loka @_fels1]

How Politics should be done:

Person A: I am TUTAM
Person B: I am WANTAM
Person A: I respect your choice. Go mobilize and persuade more people to buy into your agenda. Tupatane kwa debe.
Person B: Sawa

How It's Done in Kenya:

Person A: I am TUTAM
Person B: You are a fool. Dinywa. Shida yako ni njaa. Hata mama yako huwa haogi. Let me block you.

[Oluoch_raballa @joluoch55]

Moloch wants war, Belial wants peace, Mammon wants to build, and Beelzebub has a secret plan. Welcome to Pandemonium.

Paradise lost,
John Milton.

[Oluoch_raballa @joluoch55]

@goodreads Paradise lost, John Milton, Book VI today.

[Oluoch_raballa @joluoch55]

@deafworld256 There's a poem called shut up and close the door...the answer to your question is right there

[Oluoch_raballa @joluoch55]

@CLT_Exam Like the Catholic Church?

[Schoolhouse Rocked: The Homeschool Revolution @SRHomeschool]

"He who pays the piper calls the tune."
Friends, this is why we STRONGLY oppose government funding for homeschool families. Government money ALWAYS comes with strings attached.

Don't take the money

https://t.co/NnmoW7lRLW

[Oluoch_raballa @joluoch55]

@her_eloquence Elechi messed the ending....Ekweume ought not to have died. It made the end more painful than we'd expected. I mean even after the man became literally mad over Ihuoma, he couldn't spare him his life to begin afresh. All in all it was a great read.

[Oluoch_raballa @joluoch55]

@AlionyaRoseline https://t.co/fsfkJZXRWf