I am way behind on lots of stuff: projects, blog comments, contact form submissions, and on and on. I’m behind on stuff that has to do with the blog, and behind on stuff that has nothing to do with that blog. May is always crazy for us, and I always end it by being Way Behind on Stuff. Such is life. So one purpose of this edition of Seven Quick Takes is to catch up on some of that… — Continue Reading…
June 6, 2014[dropcap]W[/dropcap]e’ve had some good discussion on the first post and Mystie also posted a link to a free talk by Doug Wilson that explains a little more of the history behind the use of Dorothy Sayers’ application of the Trivium to the stages of child development in actual classrooms. He references, coincidentally, Comenius, so it seems we are all talking about the same thing. I think Wilson makes a number of important points worth considering, and if you have time Continue Reading…
April 19, 2012
Previously, we used Charlotte (and my pal Comenius) to assess the educational views of John Locke and James Sully. Today, we’re going to check out Pestalozzi and Froebel, as well as Herbartian psychology. So let’s get to it. Pestalozzi and Froebel — The Theory of Kindergarten Charlotte, if you recall, discussed kindergarten thoroughly in Volume 1. She calls this “looking a gift horse in the mouth” because she considers that we are very much in debt to the invention of Kindergarten. Continue Reading…
August 6, 2010
Last time, we discussed Charlotte’s criteria for judging a philosophy or theory of education, and then I added some of what I learned from Dr. Grant’s talk on Comenius, which I added to our list of considerations (I think you’ll understand why as we go on). This time, we’ll see what Charlotte had to say about the educational philosophy of John Locke, and then the philosophy-plus-science of a Professor James from Harvard (James was adding to Locke using recent physiological Continue Reading…
August 2, 2010
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