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Technique I work on the premise that iron sharpens iron. To advance intellectually, we must run the mind up against even harder and sharper steel in the form of great writing about great ideas by great people. I work to ensure that this interaction creates the quantity and quality of friction that sharpens without cutting. See Mortimer [...] Curious and/or gifted elementary and middle school students. Click here for more on classical tutoring. Not because I value violence, strife, or destruction. In fact, my intentions could not be further from glorifying war. As a young man, I was fascinated by war, death, and destruction as are many of today’s youngsters. Given this reality, I see a few choices: 1. Pretend like war and violence don’t exist or that somehow humanity has [...] The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty. – Theodore Parker Learning to read deeply requires patience and practice. [...] This 60 volume set of, arguably, the finest thinking in the Western tradition never fails to excite me. The high price of $995 represents one of the great bargains around. In one set, you get English translations of the greatest books (History, Philosophy, Science, and Literature) in the Western canon, from Homer to Freud, with [...] Academic Mentoring A relationship in which an experienced, academically-successful person supports a less experienced person who desires to improve their academic performance. How can it help improve your student’s academic performance? I help with student performance based on a function I learned in business school. The theory is that Performance is a function of: Motivation By meeting with [...] Classical tutoring defined: Private instruction given to a student by a highly skilled teacher focused solely on helping the student build a strong, broad academic base from which to build a habit of excellent life-long learning. These tutors often used the proven Enlightenment techniques of the Trivium and Quadrivium. In days of yore, only the extremely wealthy could afford this best of [...] |
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