Surprise! Textbooks distort religion
So it seems that the word is out: Textbooks are not accurate in representing Religion… what else is new..? http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,506773,00.html This reminds me of a time a few weeks ago […]
Category Archives: Education
Plato’s Theory Of Recollection…
Currently, I am immersed in reading Dr. John Mark Reynold’s (Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Biola University) unpublished (and heavily unedited) copy of his upcoming book “Athens and Jerusalem: The […]
Becoming a great teacher…
It was once said that the “mediocre teacher tells, the good teacher explains, the superior teacher demonstrates, and the great teacher inspires.” Often simple riddles, such as the above, can […]
Part 2: Reviving Learning…
In her classic speech on the “Lost Tools of Learning” Dorothy Sayers prophetically remarks, “Is not the great defect of our education today…that although we often succeed in teaching our […]
Part 1: Learning is Dead
In a classic Doonesbury cartoon, a rumpled professor holds forth from a lectern while his students dutifully scribble away in their notepads: ” . . . and in my view, […]
