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MartinCothran

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1 year

"Last year the SAT people dropped the “analogies” part of their universal test, because no one could do it anymore. The minds of the computer literate are no longer literate. Indeed, people often ask me how students have changed over my 40 years of teaching. The most dramatic

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Analogies test the ability to connect ideas. They are hallmarks of aptitude testing. They are all about using logic and thinking well. The new Common Core aligned SAT is not interested in this.

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We interrupt your 4th of July to remind you that the United States is a republic, not a democracy, and that the founders consciously and intentionally designed it this way. You may now continue celebrating...

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I'm here in Oxford at the Bodleian Library, one of the places where the literary expression of Western civilization is housed. It reminds me that civilization is hard to build, but easy, through neglect, to lose.

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My secret weapon. Everything Chesterton said about anything in all his books.

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11 months

I looked long and hard for a climate scientist with unimpeachable credentials who didn't engage in overgeneralization and cherry-picking of data, made sense, and who I could trust. When I read Judith Curry's Climate Uncertainty and Risk, I knew I had finally found one.

Judith Curry

@curryja

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The most comprehensive review to date on my book Climate Uncertainty and Risk, by economist Stephen Wilson, including numerous quotes from the book. "This book clearly represents the distilled essence of a lifetime of experience, work, and reflection. While focused on climate,

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2 years

My youngest son Timothy got married this weekend to Zoriana Grischuk. Beautiful wedding.

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2 years

When conservatives oppose a Supreme Court decision, they try to refute its arguments. When the left opposes a Supreme Court decision, they question the legitimacy of the Court.

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9 months

Many people miss one of homeschooling's chief educational benefits: The education of homeschool parents, who at some point realize that they're getting the real education they themselves never got in schools.

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MartinCothran

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1 year

My newest classical commentary.

"Innovation" Is NOT Fixing America's Broken Education System

Join Martin Cothran as he unpacks the core problem with innovation in modern education.Lawmakers and policy leaders are not going to fix our broken schools t...

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Another way to solve the masculinity crisis is to stop letting boys read insipid literature like Captain Underpants and Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and start giving them regular doses of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Louis L'Amour, H. Rider Haggard, C. S. Forester, and Raphael Sabatini.

Wall Street Journal Opinion

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1 year

Mainstream institutions and authorities—churches, schools, academia, the media—could learn a few things from the online gurus about how to speak to young men effectively, writes @aaron_renn

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1 year

The biggest problem with children's literature today is that it tries to reach kids "where they are." But great children's literature only comes to you in order to take you away—to another place or time. It doesn't try to conform itself to you: It changes you.

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1 year

@Stiv_Martaxi That is correct. Kreeft's comment is from a few years ago. The SAT removed analogies in 2005.

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3 years

This is what happens when the values of an institution begin to radically diverge from that of the general population. Schools used to reflect the values of their communities; now they actively attempt to undermine them.

Jeremy Wayne Tate

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3 years

In 1973 there were roughly 13,000 homeschool students in America. Today it is over 5 million.

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With left-wing ideologues gaining more power, the temptation on the other side is to become a right-wing ideologue. But the best thing to do is to avoid becoming an ideologue at all. Read books. Know history. Love your children. Pass on your culture. Everything else is secondary.

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They are vocal, committed, and unapologetic about what they think are the virtues of their culture. We are silent, unsure, and apologetic about our own. That's why this is happening.

RadioGenoa

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Islamic Jihad in Europe. Clashes in London between "pro-Palestine" protesters and English police. They don't want peace, they want chaos. Know this.

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This the problem: Many modern conservatives have somehow been disconnected from their own tradition. They have never heard of, much less read people like Edmund Burke, Russell Kirk, Roger Scruton, Leo Strauss and Thomas Sowell.

Jonah Goldberg

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I laughed.

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In the Jefferson County, KY public school system to which I pay taxes, only 44% of students read at a proficient or higher level. In math it is 37%, and in science 22%. Would you call that success or failure?

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The best thing we could do for education in America is to close all university education departments, make students major in a legitimate subject, and force professors to go out and find a real job.

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@MartinCothran

5 months

Louis L'Amour rightly pointed out that every town, even small ones, in the American West in the late 19th century had a bookstore. They were stocked almost exclusively with the classics because people wanted books they could read for profit again and again.

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@Avonleebythesea

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I feel like towns that were designed with four things at their center: a main street with its bookshop, cafe, park, church, were quintessential Americana. These places do not have to die, we just have to make them more valuable than another Verizon or a Starbucks. We need to

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3 years

Here is the conservative agenda for the next election: 1) The stabilization of the American economy at home; 2) The reassertion of American power abroad; and 3) The refocusing of schools on academics rather than ideology.

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MartinCothran

@MartinCothran

1 year

A great visual image of what classical education is trying to do for the culture.

Culture Critic

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1 year

1960s cladding being removed from a 1920s building in San Antonio. Humanity is healing.

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As Chesterton pointed out in his book Orthodoxy, all modern political and philosophical heresies--materialism, rationalism, idealism, Marxism, evolutionism--have taken some part of the truth and tried to make it the whole truth. Every major modern ideology is a Christian heresy.

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MartinCothran

@MartinCothran

5 months

I don't think Austen wrote good books either. I think she wrote great books. They are masterful portrayals of interpersonal and societal relationships. If one doesn't like human relationships, then I suppose he would find them boring. But then he would find life boring too.

Ted Joy

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5 months

Austen didn't write good books, much less interesting ones. She wrote soap opera romances for highly-schooled, middle-class women. Still, she wrote about what she knew - dreary, uninteresting women searching for a man. We know very little of what Shakespeare did or did not do.

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MartinCothran

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2 years

Having just finished speaking at a string of home school conferences around the country this summer, I am reminded of how literate homeschoolers are. Why? Because they read books. Not only the students, but their parents. You can't be an educated person unless you #ReadBooks .

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5 months

Among the books most read on the Western frontier were : Plutarch's Lives, Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, Pilgrim's Progress, Shakespeare's plays, Tennyson's Idylls of the King, Hawthorne's short stories, Montaigne's Essays, and, of course, the King James Bible.

MartinCothran

@MartinCothran

5 months

Louis L'Amour rightly pointed out that every town, even small ones, in the American West in the late 19th century had a bookstore. They were stocked almost exclusively with the classics because people wanted books they could read for profit again and again.

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8 months

Thanks to several generations of bad education, we have all now been barbarized. The only way back is through a form of education whose explicit purpose is to recivilize us. #ClassicalEducation is the only form of education that explicitly purports to do this.

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@MartinCothran

5 months

In a way, L'Amour is America's Homer: Like Homer, who taught Greeks their country's national myth (the Trojan War), L'Amour best articulates our national myth (the conquest of the West). Like Homer, he's not a highbrow writer, just a good storyteller.

Paula

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5 months

@MartinCothran This is fascinating stuff. I always looked down on my Dad for reading Louis L'Amour because I thought it was low brow. Little did I know. Caroline Gordon's "Aleck Maury, Sportsman" exemplifies what you describe here. Have you happened to have read it?

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I am willing to bet that these are people who were not read to as children. Their souls are stunted. The best thing we can do for them is to gather them in a circle on the lawn at Columbia and read them Charlotte's Web and Little House on the Prairie.

MartinCothran

@MartinCothran

6 months

Our educational establishment has given these people nothing noble to aspire to. Their only way to make a difference in the world is to rebel against something, anything. If you don't inspire people with a noble purpose, you will turn them into nihilists who hate you.

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I always felt guilty about liking Art Deco because it was modern. But the plain fact is that it is beautiful. And the more I have thought about this, the more I have come to the conclusion that Beauty is THE single and sole criterion for Art. Everything else is beside the point.

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America was supposed to be Art Deco. Here's how an age of optimism sparked a golden age of design. And why it's coming back... (thread) 🧵

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Ahhhhh, the days when people didn't go out in public in their pajamas.

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Passengers bursting onto the platform in beautiful dresses, hats and suits ready for the Henley Regatta in early July. Filmed c. 1898.

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False dichotomy.

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Classical education is not a shelter, but a fortress; not a shield, but a sword; not a safe space, but a boot camp.

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The ultimate goal of education is learning to love the right things.

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6 months

New school uniforms at Highlands Latin School (at least for today).

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MartinCothran

@MartinCothran

2 years

This is largely because many Catholic schools became mirror images of the public schools they were founded to compete with. Why pay thousands of dollars for the same education with a religion class? This is why so many close every year.

Jeremy Wayne Tate

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In 1965, 50% of Catholic children in America went to Catholic schools. Today it is less than 8%. This didn’t happen by accident.

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A partial list of people who would not be considered qualified to teach in our public schools: Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Confucius, Virgil, Thomas Aquinas, Chaucer, Dante, Shakespeare, Isaac Newton, Leo Tolstoy, Einstein, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and Emily Dickinson.

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7 months

#BestBooksOnClassicalEd #5 : Well, I never announced the 5th and final book on classical ed. Here it is: "Begin Here: The Forgotten Conditions of Teaching and Learning", by Jacques Barzun. I'll just state this bluntly: Jacques Barzun was the greatest pedagogical authority since

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MartinCothran

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Reading is a habit, and only as a habit are you able to do it well. If you sit down once a year and try to read, you will not do it very well. If do it once a week, you will do it better. And if you do it every day you will do it very well.

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5 months

Many writers today have never actually done anything interesting, and so they can't believably write about anything interesting. Not so with Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, Jack London. If you spent your life in front of a computer screen, it's best not to attempt to write a book.

Lawrence Serewicz 🙂

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@MartinCothran He lived what he wrote. He was in Singapore as a merchant seaman in the 1930s. He saw things and did things that inform his stories. His autobiography is really good.... Education of a Wandering Man.

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#HowToFixSchools #9 : Teach Latin. You'll get more academic benefit learning Latin than any other subject except possibly math. It teaches you how to think and what to think with (an academic vocabulary). Oh, and it teaches you grammar far better than trying to do it in English.

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MartinCothran

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Academia was once criticized for using Latin as the language by which Western scholars communicated with one another (until about the mid-1800s). Having recently had the necessity of reading articles in several academic journals, I'm thinking maybe Latin was not so bad after

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3 months

"[T]he classical aim of education was to correct nature through civilization. The romantic aim of education is to correct civilization through nature."—E. D. Hirsch, Why Knowledge Matters, p. 194

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MartinCothran

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1 year

And this outdated and discredited view of how children learn goes back much further than the 1960s: It goes back to Piaget and Vygotsky, to Dewey, and finally to Rousseau. It continues to lead a zombie existence in our education colleges.

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1 year

#4 : Have students read real books. When young, also read TO them. And we're not talking Captain Underpants here. We have a treasure house of inspirational children's literature. The lack of emphasis on real books in schools is an unacknowledged scandal. #HowToFixSchools

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MartinCothran

@MartinCothran

1 month

Modern stories tend to emphasize moral ambiguity, whereas traditional stories tend to emphasize moral strength, which is one reason why we should read more of the latter and less of the former.

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@MartinCothran

5 months

Western culture derives from two sources: the Graeco-Roman and the Christian. To say that either one should not be taught is to handicap students in knowing the history of their culture. And for both not to be taught (what is happening now) is cultural suicide.

Daniel Buck, “Instruction Geek”

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Lots of pearl clutching about students learning basic Bible stories. Look, if we want our students to understand any work of literature, our founding ideals, or even just the speeches of Lincoln or King, they need to be conversant in Bible basics. Really not that complicated

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1 year

@Culture_Crit The loss of cultural memory.

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@MartinCothran

1 year

I am convinced that reading aloud to children, regularly and frequently, would solve half our education problems.

Frank DeVito

@therightfrankd

1 year

@MartinCothran Our family avoids garbage and reads above our children's level. Milne's Winnie the Pooh before my son was even two. Narnia for the 5 and 4 year old now. They don't get all of it (neither do adults), but they understand a surprising amount and it forms them to love literature.

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Mothers are deontologists: they demand that you follow the rules. Fathers are consequentialists: they warn you what will happen if you don't. Boys are virtue ethicists: they do what the male figures they admire do. This is why boys need to be steeped in heroic fiction.

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How to Fix Schools: #1 : Teach phonics. Stop ignoring the research and ditch the whole word reading methods. English is not Chinese. The research world now accepts the "Science of Reading" (they still can't bring themselves to utter the word "phonics"). Admit you were wrong.

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@MartinCothran

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Schoolchildren don't need to be thinking about sexuality, global warming, and the latest communicable disease. They need to be thinking about Charlotte's Web, Anne of Green Gables, and Little House on the Prairie. #ClassicalEducation

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MartinCothran

@MartinCothran

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A one room, multi-grade school house was possible only because there was a curriculum set in concrete. Everyone knew where they were in the program ("I'm in the middle of the third reader"). Today's schools, no matter how many rooms they have, fail for lack of a curriculum.

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The one room school house is a monument to educational achievement. Local communities had total control with no state or federal involvement. Older children would teach younger children and achieve mastery in the process. They spent far less money and did it in half the days.

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I am still unpacking boxes from our move to Louisville last fall and came across a letter I received from Wendell Berry. It occurred to me that many people today, if they were to receive a letter from Berry, would not be able to read it, since it is written in cursive.

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MartinCothran

@MartinCothran

10 months

Found this on my desk today--the New edition of the Classical Teacher with my cover article.

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@MartinCothran

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A book that still holds up after fifty, a hundred, or even a thousand years can be depended upon in a way a book written yesterday, however impressive, cannot.

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@MartinCothran

7 months

You know you have succeeded as a parent if your children, once grown to adults, desire to be good.

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MartinCothran

@MartinCothran

29 days

From a school library. This is part of our problem.

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MartinCothran

@MartinCothran

8 months

You know a book is good if you feel the absurd obligation, while reading it, to underline everything.

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MartinCothran

@MartinCothran

7 months

Woke ideology is starting to die. Why? Because it's not real. You can only fantasize for so long until you run up against the rock of reality, and the slogans don't work anymore.

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MartinCothran

@MartinCothran

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I have been at many a library book sale where I got the sinking feeling that our schools were throwing out the literature and history they once taught—and our civilization with it.

Beanie

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@MartinCothran We have a pretty well-stocked library of great literature at More Grace thanks to the public schools “discarding” them. It’s a shame that those students are missing out but I’m glad ours are benefiting.

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@NRO @mawrightjr Because National Review (and I say this as a subscriber and long-time reader) has never complained about bad conditions in America. This criticism seems to me to be completely beside the point.

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MartinCothran

@MartinCothran

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Memoria College Press has just released our new edition of R. W. Livingstone's A Defence of Classical Education. Written in 1917, as the progressive hordes were closing in, it deserves its reputation as the best articulation of classical education ever written.

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When schools no longer teach logic and literature, you get a generation of people who can neither argue nor sympathize, and the only tools left to deal with disagreement are censorship and suppression.

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Pitting memorization and factual knowledge against understanding is a false progressivist trope that has caused untold educational harm in this country over the last hundred years.

Bankster Life

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@MartinCothran In theory, it is a false dichotomy. In practice, it is not.

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Almost all modern attempts to reform education attempt to solve education problems by trying to change the delivery system. They seldom address the central problem of education, which is a lack of clarity about what students should know and be able to do. If you don't know what

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@MartinCothran

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What makes them better is that they offer clear and compelling exemplars of strength and virtue uninfected by the shallow irony that disenchants modern children's literature.

Bankster Life

@BanksterLife

1 year

@MartinCothran What specifically makes your book recs better than diary of a wimpy kid?

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MartinCothran

@MartinCothran

4 months

All the intellectual action is in the classical education movement.

Soren Schwab

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Wow! Look at the number of classical Christian schools all across the nation.

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MartinCothran

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The problem with modern art is not that it is not beautiful, but that it is not art.

Jeremy Wayne Tate

@JeremyTate41

1 year

@Culture_Crit Classical art aimed to uplift the soul through an encounter with beauty. Modern art aims to shock, disorient, and confuse.

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Your workspace is important.

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@MartinCothran

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"Without a knowledge of Greek there is no education."—Leo Tolstoy

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@MartinCothran

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I found the new summer edition of the Classical Teacher magazine, of which I am editor, on my desk this morning. Should be in mailboxes by July 15.

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It is no wonder that it was Athens and Jerusalem that came together to form the West. Greek culture was the culture of the question; Hebrew culture was the culture of the answer. The Greeks famously interrogated this world; the Hebrews famously grounded it in the next.

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Notice that when public schools talk about how they're going to improve education, they never say anything about what knowledge they're actually planning on teaching them.

JCPS

@JCPSKY

3 years

Here's a closer look at the key strategies for accelerating learning ⬇️

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"The Matrix" was nothing more than the modern, technological retelling of Plato's Allegory of the Cave.

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I saw once again today a comment extolling the idea that we should teach not "what to think, but how to think critically." That is complete nonsense. We should never privilege the means by which we reach truth over the end of the truth itself.

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@JeremyTate41 I was at an ophthamologist's office today and he showed me, on a table, a set of graded lenses that he, as an opthomologist, still used, invented by Franklin.

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That's what a culture is supposed to be.

Jeremy Wayne Tate

@JeremyTate41

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Imagine spending your entire life on a building project your great-great-great grandfather started and your great-great-great grand children would complete. Not enough “great’s” here. Milan Cathedral took 579 years to complete.

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Every failed educational fad of the last hundred years was "evidence-based."

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Three of our four children had severe behavioral issues: they had a hard time concentrating, they fought with each other, and they often engaged in generally irrational behavior. We finally determined what the problem was: they were boys.

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This person apparently doesn't realize that private school families currently have to pay, not only for their own children's education in a private school, but also for the education of other people's children through their tax dollars.

Lexington Herald-Leader

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If you want your children to attend private schools in KY, pay for it yourself | Opinion

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Yes. Education of a Wandering Man is a fabulous book. It makes you realize that L'Amour led a life that is not even possible anymore. He traveled, took odd jobs, talked with people, and read books. He lived a real life, and only when he had done that did he write.

Lawrence Serewicz 🙂

@lldzne

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@MartinCothran He lived what he wrote. He was in Singapore as a merchant seaman in the 1930s. He saw things and did things that inform his stories. His autobiography is really good.... Education of a Wandering Man.

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A classical educator like Quintilian starts with experience of how students actually do learn and then derives a theory about it. The people in our modern education colleges start with a theory of learning and then try to derive how students should learn (but, in reality, don't).

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When John Dewey joined Teachers College at Columbia University in 1904 and inaugurated the progressive education movement.

Daniel Buck, “Instruction Geek”

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Where did American education go wrong?

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I write for a living, and in my experience the best way to learn how to write—apart from learning the basics of grammar and composition—is to imitate writers you would like to write like.

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It would be better to read Little House on the Prairie or Charlotte's Web with largely illiterate middle or high schoolers that to try to foist Catcher in the Rye or The Handmaid's Tale on them. In fact, no one in or out of school should have to endure Salinger or Atwood.

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MartinCothran

@MartinCothran

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Upon finishing another great 19th century novel, it occurs to me that romantic attraction in these works almost always involves each of the parties discovering the true goodness of the other, bringing about a mutual respect that forms the ground of their relationship.

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MartinCothran

@MartinCothran

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"In our state, the latest data from the Colorado Department of Education shows the number of students homeschooling more than doubled last year to 15,773. In 2019, only 7,880 students were being homeschooled."

Jeremy Wayne Tate

@JeremyTate41

3 years

Number of students being homeschooled in Colorado more than doubles | FOX31 Denver

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MartinCothran

@MartinCothran

8 months

#FiveGreatConservativeThinkers you should read: #1 : Edmund Burke; #2 : G. K. Chesterton; #3 : Russell Kirk; #4 : Roger Scruton; 5: Thomas Sowell

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MartinCothran

@MartinCothran

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This gives me hope for civilization.

Massimo

@Rainmaker1973

3 months

The Irish stepdance is characterised by the rigid upper body and intricate footwork of its performers. When it's done with perfect synchronization is even more amazing. [📹 Cairde]

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MartinCothran

@MartinCothran

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A sunny day at Highlands Latin School.

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MartinCothran

@MartinCothran

1 year

Classical Education foundered on the rocks of progressivism & pragmatism in the early 20th century. Now people are floating around on their individual piece of the wreck, thinking it's the whole ship. Classical education is the whole ship.

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MartinCothran

@MartinCothran

1 year

#HowToFixSchools #7 : Pass on Western Civilization. Schools shouldn't be training little revolutionaries how to chant subversive sounding clichés. Teach the literary, philosophical, civic, and artistic glories of our civilization and they will not need to be told what to revile.

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MartinCothran

@MartinCothran

2 years

The lack of understanding about how our institutions are supposed to work betrayed in the post-Dobbs debate has shown, better than anything else, the ignorance that ensues when we replace the teaching of history and civics in our schools with political activism.

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MartinCothran

@MartinCothran

1 year

I don't think it's a coincidence that, as soon as Beauty began to be considered subjective, we started to produce fewer beautiful things.

Jeremy Wayne Tate

@JeremyTate41

1 year

You have perfectly summed up the attitude that is so unattractive in modern art enthusiasts, “Don’t speak commoner, YOU don’t have the right degrees, I AM A SPECIALIST!” Sorry, not sorry, won’t stop talking, I have eyes and a brain and much of modern art and architecture is ugly.

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MartinCothran

@MartinCothran

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Because if you threw paint randomly on a piece of modern art, which, in many cases, consists of paint thrown randomly, how would you know the difference?

Culture Critic

@Culture_Crit

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Why don't they ever do this to modern art?

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MartinCothran

@MartinCothran

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A bunch of thin sheets made from wood pulp and held together on one side by something called a "binding" with a cover on it. The game is to learn what the words printed on the pages say. #ItsNotComplicated

Education Week Teacher

@EdWeekTeacher

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Educators: What tech tools help you gamify your classroom? 💬 #gamification #education #teaching

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MartinCothran

@MartinCothran

3 years

So as abortion proponents melt down over the Texas law, it's a good time to revisit the actual argument against abortion: The intentional taking of an innocent human life is wrong; abortion intentionally takes the life of an innocent human; therefore abortion is wrong.

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MartinCothran

@MartinCothran

3 years

“I’m sitting here for 12 hours in the airport, 8 hours on the airfield and I haven’t seen a single US plane take off. How on Earth are you going to evacuate 50,000 people in the next two weeks? It just, it can’t happen.”--CNN’s Clarissa Ward

U.S. Pauses Evacuations From Kabul, No Flights In Last 8 Hours From Afghanistan

The United States has paused evacuations from Kabul, Afghanistan, over concerns that its evacuation base in Qatar is becoming severely overcrowded and is threatening to become a “humanitarian...

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MartinCothran

@MartinCothran

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"[A]ttempts to eliminate doubt about human-caused global warming are directly related to overconfidence in the relevant scientific findings...[W]ith regards to the IPCC, the consensus building process and emphasis on expert judgment produces a petri dish that grows

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