Colloquy: Should the Quadrivium be a part of our k-12 intellectual culture?

Steve Elliott
Leading this was both a delight and very frustrating for me.  I wanted to jump in and discuss, not moderate and facilitate.  This is a huge question needing a lot of discussion.  We had trouble getting us all on the same page in defining the Quad because it is so lost from our educational [...]

Returning to the Quad – What Science Ed Really Needs

I love it when disparate readings coalesce into something beautiful. I was just reading yesterday in James Taylor’s Poetic Knowledge and then today saw this article in the NY Times. Taylor believes that to return to true scientific knowledge we will profit by “playing” with the attendant natural principles that a child learns, for instance, [...]