Classical Education Through a Novice’s Eyes

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If you’re struggling to choose your major in college, you’re in excellent company. With two thousand potential majors offered for study in the U.S., it is no wonder that 1 in 3 college students will change their major in the first 3 years of their program. Yet high school students are often expected to know, before even enrolling in college, exactly what they want to study and why. We’re here to offer some reassurance and tips to help you narrow down your options so you can approach your college years with excitement and confidence.

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socrates by Pietro Bellotti (1621-1700)

A Socratic View of Assessment

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When studying the nature of questions, it is impossible to overlook the significance of Socrates, the Father of Questions in the Western tradition. His method of Socratic Dialogue not only stands at the very origins of philosophy in the West, but it also weaves through the whole “Great Conversation” about transcendent ideas, from Ancient Greece to Modernity, as the heartbeat that drives the tradition forward. Consequently, if we are to discover a classical mode of assessment, then there is no better place to start our investigation.

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Remembering Bastille Day

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For France, July 14th is equivalent to America’s July 4th in that historians often mark the Storming of the Bastille as the official beginning of the French Revolution. Yet the tone of the two national holidays could not be more different. How can it be that just a handful of years after the celebrated outcome of the American Revolution, France was torn to shreds while reportedly pursuing the same goal?

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The Best High School Summer Reads

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If you’re struggling to choose your major in college, you’re in excellent company. With two thousand potential majors offered for study in the U.S., it is no wonder that 1 in 3 college students will change their major in the first 3 years of their program. Yet high school students are often expected to know, before even enrolling in college, exactly what they want to study and why. We’re here to offer some reassurance and tips to help you narrow down your options so you can approach your college years with excitement and confidence.

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How to Choose a College Major

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If you’re struggling to choose your major in college, you’re in excellent company. With two thousand potential majors offered for study in the U.S., it is no wonder that 1 in 3 college students will change their major in the first 3 years of their program. Yet high school students are often expected to know, before even enrolling in college, exactly what they want to study and why. We’re here to offer some reassurance and tips to help you narrow down your options so you can approach your college years with excitement and confidence.

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How to Study for the SAT

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The College Board claims that the SAT and ACT test transferable skills like reading comprehension and logical inference. And the truth is, students who read well will likely perform well on College Board exams. But the test prep industry survives and succeeds due to the assumption that students can be trained to beat the test–that special knowledge of testing traps will help students improve their score without improving their reading skills, logical reasoning, or education in general. There is far more–or perhaps far less–to the SAT than the skills it claims to assess. 

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