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The Subversive Art of Observation
Classical education’s commitment to seeing—seeing reality—is a kind of resistance, not merely to error, but to the machinery that institutionalizes it.
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The Subversive Art of Active Reading
To read actively is an act of defiance, of self-discipline, of engagement with something larger than oneself. It is to think, to wrestle, to question…
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The Subversive Art of Socratic Dialogue
While modern pedagogy concerns itself with the frantic transmission of information, the Socratic dialogue insists education is not about information…
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The Subversive Art of Poetry
To memorize a Shakespearean sonnet or a passage from Dante is to resist the erosion of memory, to store within oneself a treasury of language and…
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The Subversive Art of Annotation
To annotate is to engage in whispered dialogue with the dead. The hand tracing notes in the margin is shaking hands across time, reaching into the past…
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The Subversive Art of Traditional Grammar
It’s time to mount a counter-offensive against the cult of grammatical dissolution, the hive-mind of unpunctuated abandon where rules are discarded not…
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The Subversive Art of Teaching Western Civ.
If education is to develop moral character and civic virtue, then students must understand the principles upon which their society is built.
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The Subversive Art of Logic
Logic is not merely another subject in the curriculum; it is the foundation upon which all true education rests, the means by which the mind is trained…
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The Subversive Art of Geometry
To study Euclid is to engage in a discipline that is valuable not because it produces wealth but because it trains the mind to see order, harmony, and…
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The Subversive Art of Slow Reading
What was once an act of immersion has now become an exercise in evasion. There’s no time to linger or to contemplate because the screen is perpetually…
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The Subversive Art of Classical Education
In its insistence on coherence, purpose, and the unity of knowledge, the classical model offers not just a critique of contemporary education but a…
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The Subversive Art of Sentence Diagramming
A key to understanding language, to thinking deeply, and, perhaps, to finding a measure of beauty in the intricate, interconnected world of words
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