Tag: Classical Education
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2023-04-28
Student Writing
I am often required to give students "helpful feedback" on their writing. I mark missing commas or misspelled words in red ink. I circle the occasional awkward phrase. I fear, however, that these marks are really doing the students a disservice. They give the illusion that their bad writing would become good writing if they were to insert the missing commas and fix the spelling mistakes. To become good the whole thing would need to change, and this means a change to the student's deeper habits of life. So here are my four recommendations.
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2023-03-17
The Mind of a Gentleman
This essay explores St. John Henry Newman's conception of a gentleman's education; it was originally published in the Classical Teacher.
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2022-09-27
Dust Jacket 3: Towles
In Session 3 of the Dust Jacket podcast, Martin Cothran and I discuss Amor Towles' marvelous book *A Gentleman in Moscow*
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2022-03-11
Leisure
I appear on the Classical Etc. podcast to discuss the concept of leisure.
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2022-01-17
Dust Jacket 1: Newman
In Session 1 of the Dust Jacket podcast, Martin Cothran and I discuss St. John Henry Newman's *Idea of the University*
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2017-05-20
Gratitude
My address at the 2017 Mars Hill graduation.
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2017-05-16
Christopher Graney on Galileo
Christopher Graney talk about Galileo.