Calendar

Mar
7
Tue
Birth of Learning
Mar 7 – Mar 21 all-day
Mar
21
Tue
Plutarch “On the Education of Children”
Mar 21 – Apr 4 all-day

Plutarch • The Education of Children text

03 – A Discourse Touching the Training of Children, part 1 audiobook

04 – A Discourse Touching the Training of Children, part 2 audiobook

Plutarch • De Auditu text

31 – Of Hearing, part 1 audiobook

32 – Of Hearing, part 2 audiobook

Note the two translations are different, but the text for the audiobook can be found here: Online text on pages 3 and 441, respectively.

Mar
24
Fri
Classical Mythology — Electra
Mar 24 – Mar 27 all-day
Mar
28
Tue
Birth of Learning: Saint Augustine “On Christian Education”
Mar 28 – Apr 3 all-day
Apr
5
Wed
Birth of Learning
Apr 5 – Apr 11 all-day
May
4
Thu
Birth of Learning
May 4 – May 9 all-day

Dear Class,

Here are a few things to help you with your capstone papers, which are to be a synthesis of everything we have learned this semester, beginning with a concise description of education in the classical model (it’s focus on language, rhetoric and literature [the progymnasmata, for instance], its moral and aesthetic character, its supplementation by philosophy), then continuing with the adaptation of the classical curriculum by the early Church Fathers [both Greek and Latin, with specific examples], thence onward into the middle ages with Cassiodorus and the trivium/quadrivium, and ultimately into the Renaissance.  I would end with some reflection about the current state of education in light of our last lecture and Victor Davis Hanson’s book, along with some of your own ideas about what the place of of the classics should be in education now. Feel free to incorporate some material from your previous essays.

Ecce!

Something I wanted to upload, but couldn’t, two weeks ago delbanco- what college is, was and should be

An  article about using Quintilian’s methods in today’s classroom  knoblauch-quintilian-today

Good material on and by the Sophists sourcebook-sophists

Powerpoint early-Christian-reception-of-classical-education-the-latin-Fathers

Powerpoint the-departure-from-classical-Christian-education-in-modern-america

Powerpoint early-Christian-reception-of-classical-education-the Greek-Fathers

And a great article  I just read: A Student’s Guide to Liberal Learning

 

 

 

 

Sep
12
Tue
Philosophy Homework
Sep 12 all-day

**Homework**

Please spend twenty minutes practicing the following exercise:

https://www.quia.com/mc/2240067.html?AP_rand=1865047311

 

Sep
13
Wed
Philosophy Homework
Sep 13 all-day

**Homework**

Please complete the activity, and write out each of the fifteen words on a sheet of paper.  To be collected tomorrow.

Note also that long o (ō) signifies omega, and short o (o) signifies omicron

Practice the Greek Alphabet 1 – tabney.com