Assessment, as you can imagine, is different for each student and each class. An elementary student is assessed for mastery in different ways than a high school student. We assess a student’s mastery of woodworking differently than we do his mastery of chemistry. These observations leave us no assistance in grading our high school level […]
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Memory as a culture is even more important than memory as an individual. After all, as an individual, I will die. When I do, my memory will be gone as well. Unless I pass the things worth remembering onto my children and my children’s children, my memories will cease. Keeping memories alive from one generation
Last week, we explored rhetoric a little. I say a little, because the study of rhetoric is vast and this is a little blog. One of the canons of rhetoric is memory. Of all of the canons, memoria seems to be the canon that most people gloss over. We spend months or years discovering what
Many students start practicing the art of rhetoric before they’re really able to understand what it is. That’s okay. In fact, that’s how many of us learn. We first encounter a truth, play with it even, and then we start to understand it. In short, Rhetoric is communicating well. When we start studying the art
You’ve spent the money and time to do what no other educator has done… teach your child logic. Congratulations! You may be wondering, What now? How do we continue being earth movers and changers. How do we challenge our children to use what they’re learning? How do we not lose the knowledge we’ve gained in
