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Playing and Learning
I have been thinking a good deal about playing and learning. At two back-to-back conferences, I have spoken on this topic, so my musing continues. Plato was perhaps the first to say that children should learn by playing. By compulsion you might make a child move...
Recovering Leisure (Schole) in Education: The Video (Part 2)
Those readers interested in the concept of schole (leisure, restful learning) may enjoy this video presentation I gave on the topic a few months ago at Providence Academy in Green Bay, Wisconsin. If you like the content, then you are really liking the book behind it:...
Education in Wonder and Curiosity
Josef Pieper in his book Leisure The Basis of Culture says that education (philosophy and poetry for that matter) begins in wonder. Kevin Clark and Ravi Jain in their new book, The Liberal Arts Tradition, also...
Why Study Latin? A Latin Response
Bill Carey teaches calculus and Latin...and does computer programming. Are all these activities related? As you listen to the full interview I recorded with Bill, I think you will see that they are. In this clip, listen to Bill give a Latin response to the...
The Great Conversation of… Math
Bill Carey is a Latin educator, math educator (Ad Fontes Academy, VA) and computer programmer (geospatial engineer). He has always loved both math and Latin, and is one of the few people I know who can relate Latin to computer programming without hesitation. As a...
The Eight Essential Principles of Classical Pedagogy
Here is a seminar featuring some pedagogical training I frequently give to schools and co-ops. I hope this is helpful to those seeking to learn more about classical education. In this video I present eight teaching principles that come down to us from the classical...
James K. A. Smith: Worldview Education is Not Enough
I will be posting a series of video clips of an interview on classical education I helped facilitate with author and philosopher James K. A. Smith (Desiring the Kingdom, Imagining the Kingdom). The audio of this interview was posted over a year ago on this blog--now...
Thoughtful Film Reviews By Students for Students
This summer we are launching a new enterprise--a website called FilmFisher.com which will offer thoughtful film reviews by high school and college students for high school and college students. We are presently recruiting interested and talented writers who might...
Oxford Mathematician John Lennox on Daniel and Pluralism
This past June, Dr. John Lennox (the renowned mathematician and philosopher of science from Oxford University) addressed a group of classical administrators and educators at a retreat sponsored by the Institute for Classical Schools. One of his seminars was a...
Four Headmasters Discuss School Discipline
Discipline at a school will pretty much tell the school's tale. Put another way, show me the discipline approach at school and I will show you the soul of the school. The way administrators and teachers seek to create and maintain student behavior, attitude and...
An Example of Great Socratic Teaching
As I talk and consult with classical schools and teachers, I am frequently asked what makes for great Socratic teaching. Good Socratic teaching is an art that is hard to define and takes time to master. Every Socratic class is a kind of performance or drama, and no...
What is Math Anyway?
I thought many of you would enjoy this brief clip of Latin, physics and math teacher, Bill Carey. Bill taught Latin, physics and calculus to students at Ad Fontes Academy in Virginia for five years. He participated in last summer's Lyceum on Math and Science...