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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
Syllabus: clas-4040-syllabus-fall-2017
Henri marrou-old-education-sophism-2
Walden, Universities of Ancient Greece: https://archive.org/details/universitiesofan00walduoft
This week’s readings are in the same PDF as last weeks, just begin at page 46 ff.
Henri marrou-old-education-sophism
Also, I think I mislead you into thinking perhaps that you had to read the Gorgias dialogue for this week. It is actually to be read for next week.
I apologize for any confusion.
**Homework**
Please spend twenty minutes practicing the following exercise:
https://www.quia.com/mc/2240067.html?AP_rand=1865047311
**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