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Title: Circe Institute | Cultivating Wisdom & Virtue
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I met Dr. Christi Williams at a Close Reads summer reading retreat several years ago, where she generously spent an evening discussing my interests in imagination and virtue. Over the years, I have been awed and inspired by her enthusiasm and creativity as a humanities teacher. It was a delight to sit down with Christi […]
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“During the Middle Ages… logic [took] the place of dialectic. This substitution was not accidental. For an age that possessed the Truth, the dialectical search for truth was a fruitless and even frivolous, irreverent endeavor. When one knows the truth, one has no need for dialectic – all one needs is logic. Yet to an […]
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The developmental differences between boys and girls have long interested me as a teacher. After being in the classroom for over 20 years, I’ve become a believer in sex-segregated education. I remember gazing at a poster over lunch once displayed in a staff room in the late 90s entitled “Teach to the Sexes”. It’s laughable to […]
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The following article was previously posted on the author’s Substack account. You can read it here. On Holding Flowers in Public – by De Rebus Litterarum Father puzzles why It is my habit to identify Carnations as “Christ’s flowers,’ Knowing I Can give no explanation but “Because.” -Gjertrud Schnackenberg, “Supernatural Love” We must imagine Atlas […]
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For millennia, Euclid’s Elements was a central text of classical education, shaping the minds of philosophers, theologians, statesmen, and scientists. Its endurance rests on more than the usefulness of geometry: the Elements provides an education in the liberal arts themselves. It is no wonder, then, that the phrase “Let no one ignorant of geometry enter” […]
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