Ah, that would be my choice 99% of the time. I fell in love with this one, and I search according to something suggested by the post. I'm glad you love it! And by the way, Tony is the mental math king. He began his college career as a math major at Princeton. BUT he fell in love with the great literature that (back then) was foundational to any college education. And I'm glad of that, because had he not switched to lit, we'd never have met in grad school at UNC. <3
Magic happens! I did look into the painting's story: it's fascinating! And I want to find a copy of the teacher's book, 1001 math problems, so to speak, of which the example in the painting is one.🤔
"Rewards attention for every sentence he writes." So true! But I'm also challenged to take the Grammarian's advice and re-read the book annually. I remember the first "Gaius" in my grade school education. I'm thankful to say that because of the culture of my earliest childhood I instinctively knew that this subjectivism was wrong even if I couldn't have put it into words back then. The bitter fruit, however, is everywhere before us. I pray that God will bless the schools and homes striving to return the rising generation to a nobler and more humane education. Perhaps the future will see a harvest of abundant, sweeter fruit.
Rereading great literature has been one of the great blessings of my lifetime. I fell into the habit from sheer love, to be honest. I first read David Copperfield when I was 10 years old and loved it so much that I read it every year for the next 15 years at least. But I had a host of other "read-the-every-year" books. And there is no great book which you should think of as "once and done." My own public school education was heavy on literature from grade one onward. I'm about the only person I know whose high school reading included Chaucer in the original Middle English and Paradise Lost -- and of course the great Greek epics and major plays, lots of Shakespeare, and a deep and daily dive into all of English and American literature. That was high school, public high school, in the early 1970's. We were READY for college. I was very fortunate, I now know, because schools everywhere were not nearly as good as mine on curricula. Sadly, now, college students struggle to read even a chapter of a Dickens novel. They've read almost nothing, or at best, brief excerpts from here and there. Many don't even have name recognition of the writers of the great literature that formed our civilization. Add "AI" to that mix, and you have students who are ready only for a continuation of the indoctrination which formed the bulk of their primary and secondary education. The reclamation of education will not be easy, because first and foremost we have to have classically educated faculty, even for well-intentioned private schools to succeed. The founder of Thales College, where Tony is now teaching, is aware of this problem and is hoping to train teachers fit to teach at the many classical high schools that he has established in North Carolina and environs. Willing and good-spirited teachers he has found, but they themselves have not received a thorough classical preparation themselves.
Even before I get to the essay, I have to give a cheer for your painting choice! I assumed it was Rockwell, until I noticed how the boys are dressed.
I want to solve that math problem!🥳
Did it. But couldn't do it in my head. Bet my mom could have, though.♥️
Ah, that would be my choice 99% of the time. I fell in love with this one, and I search according to something suggested by the post. I'm glad you love it! And by the way, Tony is the mental math king. He began his college career as a math major at Princeton. BUT he fell in love with the great literature that (back then) was foundational to any college education. And I'm glad of that, because had he not switched to lit, we'd never have met in grad school at UNC. <3
Magic happens! I did look into the painting's story: it's fascinating! And I want to find a copy of the teacher's book, 1001 math problems, so to speak, of which the example in the painting is one.🤔
"Rewards attention for every sentence he writes." So true! But I'm also challenged to take the Grammarian's advice and re-read the book annually. I remember the first "Gaius" in my grade school education. I'm thankful to say that because of the culture of my earliest childhood I instinctively knew that this subjectivism was wrong even if I couldn't have put it into words back then. The bitter fruit, however, is everywhere before us. I pray that God will bless the schools and homes striving to return the rising generation to a nobler and more humane education. Perhaps the future will see a harvest of abundant, sweeter fruit.
Rereading great literature has been one of the great blessings of my lifetime. I fell into the habit from sheer love, to be honest. I first read David Copperfield when I was 10 years old and loved it so much that I read it every year for the next 15 years at least. But I had a host of other "read-the-every-year" books. And there is no great book which you should think of as "once and done." My own public school education was heavy on literature from grade one onward. I'm about the only person I know whose high school reading included Chaucer in the original Middle English and Paradise Lost -- and of course the great Greek epics and major plays, lots of Shakespeare, and a deep and daily dive into all of English and American literature. That was high school, public high school, in the early 1970's. We were READY for college. I was very fortunate, I now know, because schools everywhere were not nearly as good as mine on curricula. Sadly, now, college students struggle to read even a chapter of a Dickens novel. They've read almost nothing, or at best, brief excerpts from here and there. Many don't even have name recognition of the writers of the great literature that formed our civilization. Add "AI" to that mix, and you have students who are ready only for a continuation of the indoctrination which formed the bulk of their primary and secondary education. The reclamation of education will not be easy, because first and foremost we have to have classically educated faculty, even for well-intentioned private schools to succeed. The founder of Thales College, where Tony is now teaching, is aware of this problem and is hoping to train teachers fit to teach at the many classical high schools that he has established in North Carolina and environs. Willing and good-spirited teachers he has found, but they themselves have not received a thorough classical preparation themselves.