Educating Young Socrates

As parents none of us are Mary or Joseph, so educating a young Jesus is beyond our skill set, but what about a young Socrates? If you were his teacher, you could watch your former student invent classical education and shape the future of philosophy....

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Math and Science from Plato’s Timaeus

Dr. John Mark Reynolds

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Math and Science from Plato’s Timaeus

Science started when Christians thought hard about two books: the Bible, and a book that began: SOCRATES: One, two, three –but where, my dear (17) Timaeus, is the fourth of my guests of yesterday who were to entertain me today? TIMAEUS: He’s fallen...

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Dante, The Exile Who Leads Us Home

Dr. John Mark Reynolds

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Dante, The Exile Who Leads Us Home

Only the exile can create a home where he cannot live, but where his people may find peace. Moses is the model: separated at birth from his people, raised an Egyptian, cast out to the desert, returns to lead the Children of Israel to a promised land he...

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The Shattered Image of the Thirteenth Century

Dr. John Mark Reynolds

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The Shattered Image of the Thirteenth Century

C.S. Lewis wrote a book of profound scholarship, The Discarded Image, describing how people in the Middle Ages viewed reality. The...

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Avoiding Trendy Ideas

Dr. John Mark Reynolds

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Avoiding Trendy Ideas

Moving is a reminder that old, previously cutting-edge tech has no value, super-awesome trendy clothes of yore are embarrassing, and a good leather Bible endures. A mentor once wrote me: “That which is up-to-date is forever dated.” To which my young...

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Cool Kid Clothes

Dr. John Mark Reynolds

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Cool Kid Clothes

When I was in eighth grade I grew more quickly than our family budget, so faced the dreaded question: “Are you waiting for a flood?” My jeans were shorter than my shoe tops. As I write this, I can still blush. Safe to say, I was never one of the cool...

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A Saving Story

Dr. John Mark Reynolds

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A Saving Story

We need more stories and fewer facts floating about in our brains with no context to help us use them. Whenever my children faced a problem, I tried to tell them a story—usually by writing a play. Soon they were requesting topics. The greatest challenge...

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What Students Can’t Learn in School

Dr. John Mark Reynolds

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What Students Can’t Learn in School

A good school knows when to quit. Of course, a good school starts by knowing what to do, how to do it, and who should be doing the job! The problem is that if a school is good enough then the mission can grow too large. The more we succeed, the greater...

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My Ten Commandments of Teaching

Dr. John Mark Reynolds

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My Ten Commandments of Teaching

If you work in a school that teaches kindergarten through college, you have some odd experiences. Once while leading a college class, the children’s choir came by and sang us a French song. This was lovely and reminded all of us in the discussion the...

Megan MuellerAug 25No Comments

On Timaeus

Dr. John Mark Reynolds

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Dr. John Mark Reynolds

On Timaeus

Plato is not an easy writer and Timaeus is his most difficult text. After his last student died, who had heard his oral teaching, we lost the key to some parts of the book, perhaps forever. Yet we must read it with care, because for centuries it shaped...

Megan MuellerOct 18No Comments