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Andrew Kern

Educational Philosophy
CiRCE Talks: Kern’s Imitation: The Forgotten Path to Liberty

I always appreciate that Andrew Kern begins his talks with his thesis. This helps me know what I am trying to learn in my listening. Sometimes, an idea in a Kern lecture which seems initially like a digression, turns out to be firm supporting evidence for the thesis when I review my notes, and all because there is a clear thesis written down, that I might not forget it. The thesis he states this time is: Throughout human history, imitation has Continue Reading…
October 29, 2010
The Marks of the Educated Mind

I have been listening to Andrew Kern’s talk The Canons of Rhetoric: The Deep Logic of the Language Arts over and over {and over} this week. My mind is mostly uneducated, which is why I have to listen, listen, and take notes while listening, in order to understand. There is so much in this talk that I cannot possibly convey it all. At one point, however, Kern speaks of the three desiderata {Latin for “desired things”} of all learning. These Continue Reading…
November 6, 2009
Copywork in a Free Education

As the Quiddity Blog keeps discussing the concept of education for liberty versus education for slavery, I find myself trying to put feet on the concepts. For instance, in his post Ten Principles of Education for Slavery, Kern writes that a slave’s education is coercive. If you recall, I quoted another of Kern’s posts awhile back. It had a similar title, Educating People for Slavery. Kern gave the example of the teaching of algebra, how to discover which students have Continue Reading…
January 7, 2009