Paul McCain has put up some more material on his blog devoted to that Lucas Cranach altarpiece. He includes some exposition of the figures in the painting and what they mean. Note the self-portrait of Cranach, who shows the blood of Christ shooting out from
The Washington Post has sure been publishing some good articles about today’s education debacles, which tells us that even the liberal establishment is waking up to the necessity of actually educating children, as opposed to what contemporary educational theory is doing. Today’s edition included a
Fidel Castro Resigns Cuban Presidency. Who would have thought that he would peacefully retire, rather than being assassinated or overthrown in a revolution? Do you think communism will hang on in Cuba, or can we expect a revolution of freedom now that the old man is
My son-in-law and I explored the Antietam Battlefield yesterday. That site of the bloodiest day ever in American history, with 23,000 casualties, was amazing, humbling, sad, thrilling, inspiring. We read Jeff Shaara’s account of the battle in his guide to Civil War battlefields, so we understood about
Just checking to see if people are so uneducated and unknowledgeable today about the lunar eclipse coming up that Columbus’s old gambit would still work: An eclipse is credited with saving the life of Christopher Columbus and his crew in 1504. Stranded on the coast
I want to wish each and every one of you a merry Presidents Day. I hope you have all of your decorating done and will have a wonderful Presidents’ Day dinner and enjoy all of your President’s Day customs like. . . . Notice: The Church
You know all of that research into “learning styles,” whether a child is a visual learner or an auditory learner or whatever? Well, we are finding that, while there is an element of truth to it, attending to such things does not seem to matter
More vindication of classical education, which cultivates knowledge (grammar) AND understanding (logic) AND application (rhetoric). As opposed to various contemporary methods which, for reasons I cannot understand, fixate on only one of these dimensions of education and denigrate the others. This article discusses the
The notable scholar E. D. Hirsch is offering a radical new proposal: That schools actually teach CONTENT. Ever since Dewey, the assumption has been that schools don’t need to teach knowledge; rather, they should teach processes. (Classical education, of course, teaches both.) Here Hirsch shows
Roman Catholic bishops in Italy are telling actors they had better not do sex scenes. They are catching flak for interfering in the artistic process, but I salute them.
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