Sorting Through Sophistries: The Hominem Family
We here at the CLT Journal are not here to assign blame. That’s for the tu quoque to do.
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Sorting Through Sophistries: Mental Solitaire
Regrettably, we don’t always need someone else to lead us down the garden path of sophistry; we’re very capable walkers, thanks, and feel sure we can find it unassisted.
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Texts in Context: The Crocodile of Chronology
Time is sometimes depicted as an ouroboros, a serpent eating its tail, a symbol of cyclical recurrence. History is like a bask of crocodiles: they are related to snakes, but have extra features that may distract us, to our peril.
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Sorting Through Sophistries: A Pair of Pseuds
To err is human; to forgive is divine; logically, then, it must be diabolical to subalternate.
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The Study of How to Study
Many people don’t get nearly as much as they could out of their education, because they never learn one thing: how their own minds work. We’ve got a few leads on that.
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Education by Implication
We mostly think of teaching as what a book or teacher tells pupils, and that’s true as far as it goes. But a great deal is also told to pupils by the things books and teachers do not say.
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Applying to College: A High School Student’s Timeline
Today, high school; tomorrow, college—it can feel overwhelming! Here are some tips for high school students, year by year, to be ready when application time comes.
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Interview With Katherine Sinkovitz on the CLT3-6
Interview With Katherine Sinkovitz on the CLT3-6 As part of CLT’s commitment to provide the best possible testing experience, we conducted a pilot this past spring of our
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Interview with Dean of Academics Michael Adkins on the CLT3-6
“Other standardized test data gives me a sense of where our students fall nationally with other competitive private schools, but the CLT’s testing will also indicate how our students are reading a classic work of literature. Not only are we checking the boxes on nationally normed standards, but CLT fits with our mission. Seeing how we can actually improve the classroom is really going to be great.”
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