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In my search for a meaningful path toward my own education, I’ve found the following thinkers and ideas useful. I started with Jefferson and Franklin, men I admired. I then looked to their favorite authors and educational methods. From there, my latticework continues to expand. Benjamin Franklin [...] Literally, the walking around school led by Aristotle. Imagine Aristotle leading discussions with his students as they wandered the grounds of the Lyceum in Athens. Imagine Thomas Jefferson walking in the woods around Monticello late each afternoon after a long day of studying. He suggested his nephew, Peter Carr, take such walks. Now, imagine your own child, [...] 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 [...] 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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