Ordo amoris in real life: making kids care
Ordo amoris is a concept that touches every homeschool day, whether or not we realize it. Imagine the typical scene: The math page looms. “But I don’t want to,” the child moans. The book awaits….
Ordo amoris is a concept that touches every homeschool day, whether or not we realize it. Imagine the typical scene: The math page looms. “But I don’t want to,” the child moans. The book awaits….
An organized attitude, scholé, and ordo amoris are all tightly connected, at least in my mind. The threads are coming together in the book Reordered Love, Reordered Lives: Learning the Deep Meaning of Happiness which…
Esse quam videri, or Virtue The Education is for Life series In Christopher Perrin’s lecture, “Eight Essential Principles of Classical Education,” he talks about educational virtues, but for these musings of mine, I want to…
This post was first published in 2013; find more, related articles at the end of this post. Given the definition of classical education we developed previously – that classical education is a set of principles…
So, if Daniel Pink, in his book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, is correct in his conclusions, extrinsic motivators should be taboo whenever the work we assign requires creativity or when it…
Originally posted in 2007 So, what is education? What is it this task that I have signed up for? I’ve been collecting quotes on the topic for several years; when viewed together they paint an…