Education

ON THE READING OF OLD BOOKS

I have included below, the bulk of C.S. Lewis’s essay “On the Reading of Old Books” and have left out the latter portion about a recent translation of Athanasius’s On the Incarnation. The entire essay was originally the introduction to a new translation of On the Incarnation. Eventually, Lewis’s wonderful intro was included in God …

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A Philosophy of Education: Start Simple and Build From There.

So you need a philosophy of education? How do you craft a philosophy of education that is more that word soup, hastily typed out to complete an application? Lets face it, there are a confusing variety of philosophies of educational: essentialism, pragmatism, behaviorism, reconstructionism, existentialism, perennialism, and so on. While each of these has something …

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