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Thoughts on knowing and the end of education
The english word epistemology seems like a technical word because it doesn’t come from the Anglo-Saxon or French and because it has taken on a rather precise meaning. As a result, the word can i… more →
Quiddity
Thoughts on knowing and the end of education
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Andrew Kern wrote 3 weeks ago: The english word epistemology seems like a technical word because it doesn’t come from the Ang … more →
The War Against Grammar
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Andrew Kern wrote 1 month ago: Every now and then I come across a book that addresses a ridiculously important issue and does it wi … more →
Reading Homer in Byzantium
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Andrew Kern wrote 2 months ago: I was just listening again to a talk by Dr. Bryan Smith called Reading Homer in Byzantium. In it, he … more →
What is Literature, Part II: Grammar
Andrew Kern wrote 2 months ago: Some reflections on what people have meant by the term grammar, from CS Lewis’s The Discarded … more →
History of Education Revisited
Education Futurist wrote 2 months ago: From ancient Philosophers and their disciples, to the struggle of traveling students and the open sc … more →
What is Literature Anyway?
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Andrew Kern wrote 2 months ago: When we teach literature, if we must, our students should not encounter a general, bewildering sampl … more →
Historical Issues and Trends
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literacies314 wrote 2 months ago: Common School School 1770-1890 Brief History NOTE: You and your partner should discuss what you find … more →
James Schall on Getting Murdered by Your Students
Andrew Kern wrote 2 months ago: Just read this in a marvel of an essay by James Schall that I appeal to you to read and contemplate: … more →
Greek Paideia and the Bible
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Andrew Kern wrote 3 months ago: From Werner Jaeger’s Early Christianity and Greek Paideia As the Greek paideia consisted of th … more →
Classical Education in Corinth (I)
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Andrew Kern wrote 3 months ago: The Corinthian church of the first century has rather a bad reputation, but I wonder if people thoug … more →
Reinventing Higher Education
soulpants wrote 3 months ago: How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education By: Anya Kamenetz IVY LEAGUE 2. … more →
Aristotle, Rhetoric, and Freedom
Andrew Kern wrote 3 months ago: I’ve been arguing for some time through this blog that we cannot be free people if we don … more →
How Christians can approach classical literature
Andrew Kern wrote 5 months ago: Jacque-Benigne Bossuet, Bishop of Meaux, in a letter to Innocent XI Logic and morals serve to cultiv … more →
What is a University?
rikowski wrote 6 months ago: What is a University? Explaining the Rise of Universities in Medieval Europe This is an essay by M … more →
Our Education Platform
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Andrew Kern wrote 6 months ago: Anybody who cares about America’s future and about America’s children, both of which are … more →
JS Mill on education
Andrew Kern wrote 7 months ago: A general state education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another: … more →
Kern on Gamble on Clement on Anaxarchus on Sovereignty
Andrew Kern wrote 7 months ago: Do you get the CiRCE Papers, our free E-newsletter. Sign up by visiting our web site at www.circeins … more →
Give me a lever and I can move the world
Andrew Kern wrote 7 months ago: Archimedes famously said, “Give me a lever and I can move the world.” The world has been … more →
Erasmus, Ideas, and the Soul
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Andrew Kern wrote 7 months ago: It is scarcely possible even to hope that all men should be good; but it is not hard to pick out fro … more →
