Intellectus Conlectio V

On the final day, most of us grumping a little all week that there was so little on the praxis side of the teaching, we got our ears full of what this looks like in the classroom. The first need was to summarize where we had been.
If…
…teaching is a process that entails leading students from [...]

Intellectus Conlectio IV

Today we began by hearing from a local pastor, Jim Holland. His two-fold purpose was to build a case from scripture against works righteousness and then apply it to the classroom. He used the Parable of the Prodigal Son, but presented it in a manner that I had not considered before as the Parable of [...]

Intellectus Conlectio Evening of Art & Beauty

This evening (Wed) we had the opportunity to hear a presentation on Art and Beauty from Mike Carter, the art teacher at Westminster Academy in Memphis, TN. I will try to hit the highlights of his talk before discussing some of the things he discussed after during our Q&A time.
He began by extolling the powers [...]

Intellectus Conlectio III

As before, today had a lot of ideas and discussion that may be very hard to simply write out in discursive sentences. But I will try.
We began our day by noting that so far we had set into play a drama if you will, a set of motions within a script. We were seeking to [...]

Intellectus Conlectio II

I am going to do my best to relate these things as I can, but I must confess my mind, though obtaining more clarity on CCE than it has ever had before, is finding it tougher to relate these to other people, because of the ideas are so new to me. But let me try…
We [...]

Intellectus Conlectio I

After spending some time settling in and getting to know one another (there are 16 of us from 6 different schools – a joy to see one of my old teachers from Baton Rouge, Carrie King), we launched into our conversations with the simple but compelling question: “What is Classical Education?”
To answer this, we first [...]

Intellectus Conlectio Intro

I am attending this week an experiment in conversation. James Daniels (Westminster Academy in Memphis) had this brain child for several years before starting the experiment last year. He brings together no more than 20 people for a Monday to Friday conversation at a nice quiet Spiritual Retreat center. The topic is Classical Christian Education. [...]

Home for the Summer

So we come around to the end of another year in school and I am looking out at my students and I am asking myself the same questions I have this time every year, especially for those “moving on” or who I will not be teaching the next year.

Do each of these students know how [...]