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Clear Thinking

Once we learn to read deeply, we find the need to evaluate and expand upon what we’ve learned.

To this end, we learn to think more clearly by using the Trivium and other tools:

From Aristotle’s Organon via the Trivium

Deductive and inductive reasoning
Syllogisms and Aristotelian logic to understand and form propositions and arguments
Topics and dialectics as [...]

How I Teach

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

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 [...]