Poetic Knowledge (Or, Magic of Mother Academia) | The Commonplace | Classical CM Home Education
“Imagine that you have a group of dream students. They are engaged, they are perfectly behaved, and they have perfect memories. . . . Fill in this sentence: 3–5 years from now, my students still know . Or they still are able to do . Or they still find value in .”
Dan Heath • The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact
“There are times when personal experience keeps us from reaching the mountain top and so we let it go because the weight of it is too heavy. And sometimes the mountain top is difficult to reach with all our resources, factual and confessional, so we are just there, collectively grasping, feeling the limitations of knowledge, longing together, yearn... See more
bell hooks • Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Fr…
