Life and learning

Rhetoric

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 […]

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Why Riddles?

This past school year some Math Masters and I met weekly to solve a single riddle or problem together. This is how it worked:  Math Masters received a weekly email which contained a single riddle or math problem Math Masters solved the riddle at home over the weekend, or on Monday morning Math Masters met

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It’s easy to become complacent about our calling. It can frequently become the object of our scorn; the thing we want to “hurry up and get done”. But the great thing about having a calling, is just that. We were called to it. We didn’t trip into it. Everyone’s looks different. Mine happens to be

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