Courtney, our local Classical Ed connection has been turning me on to audios over at Circe Institute, the latest being “Good to Great: Teaching Literature From Grammar to Rhetoric” by James Taylor, author of Poetic Knowledge: The Recovery of Education, the book our group will be reading next. This is a talk that was issued […]
For anyone interested, I am posting the reading from our local February meeting on ‘rigor’ below. You can also join in on a discussion about this topic in the discussion forum here: http://charlottemasoneducation.ning.com/forum/topics/rigor-1 There was a recent article in the Wall Street Journal by Amy Chua, author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother entitled