We live in an era where almost anything can be looked up online. Dates. Definitions. Poems. Historical events. Foreign language. Mathematical equations. The names of kings, rivers, saints, battles and constellations. A child with a gadget in his hands has access to more information than the greatest libraries of antiquity could hold in them combined.Continue reading “Why Memorisation Has Never Been More Important than in the Digital Age”
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The Philosophy behind our Four-Year Cycle
One of the core ideas behind the More Classical Curriculum is that education should help a child understand the world as a coherent whole. Subjects should not exist in separate boxes, with History in one, literature in another, art somewhere else, and science disconnected from them all. Human knowledge is far richer than that. IdeasContinue reading “The Philosophy behind our Four-Year Cycle”
“Let them be born in wonder” In admiration of the Integrated Humanities Program
There are certain educational ideas that, once encountered, change the way you see education altogether. For me, the work of John Senior and the extraordinary Integrated Humanities Program at the University of Kansas belongs firmly in that category. The program, led by Senior alongside Dennis Quinn and Frank Nelick in the 1970s, took as itsContinue reading ““Let them be born in wonder” In admiration of the Integrated Humanities Program”