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Reading, Thinking, and Writing Skills Writing Intensive: Letting ideas flow onto paper The big questions: Why can we speak so freely but freeze before a blank page? How can we warm up to writing freely and comfortably, pouring your heart and mind onto the page? The content: Will be of our own creation! The skills and activities: Walking [...] July 16-23 A seven day peripatetic Socratic seminar along the West Coast Trail on Vancouver Island. Socratic discussion around the nature of exploration, its rewards and costs along this beautiful, wild coast. The big questions: What is the nature of exploration? To what end do explorers subject themselves to unknown risks and hardships? What is the role, [...] Fill your student’s summer with fun, active learning that feeds curiousity, builds skills, and opens new vistas all while walking through our lovely parks. Learn a lot more about these camps here “In order to assure a certain progress in this reading, consider what hours you have free from the school and the exercises of the school. Give about two of them, every day, to exercise; for health must not be sacrificed to learning. A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercise, [...] 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, [...] |
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