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What Students Can’t Learn in School

Dr. John Mark Reynolds

Dr. John Mark Reynolds

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...

Megan MuellerSep 18No Comments

My Ten Commandments of Teaching

Dr. John Mark Reynolds

Dr. John Mark Reynolds

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

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

Education For Every Age

Dr. John Mark Reynolds

Dr. John Mark Reynolds

Education For Every Age

Imagine a human isolated from anyone not his own age. If that had happened to me, I cannot imagine how I could still be alive. My grandparents taught me so much. Papaw Shelby was the great story-teller and wit, Papaw Earl was the very model of a gentle...

Megan MuellerOct 17No Comments

Whole Education

Dr. John Mark Reynolds

Dr. John Mark Reynolds

Whole Education

The educations of kindergarten, elementary, junior high, high school, and college students all under one roof is good for students, teachers, professors, and parents. Everyone longs for family and community, but few find either, because we live in a...

Megan MuellerSep 09No Comments

The First Question and The Iliad

Dr. John Mark Reynolds

Dr. John Mark Reynolds

The First Question and The Iliad

In one week I’m teaching the first college class–ever–at The Saint Constantine School. It’s on the Iliad, and to say I am excited is an understatement. First questions are always important in a class, but this is the first question...

Megan MuellerAug 14No Comments

Education for a Free People

Dr. John Mark Reynolds

Dr. John Mark Reynolds

Education for a Free People

Education should start in the search for Wisdom and not in what we like. We know Shakespeare is great and that most trendy things are not going to be great. Why? Shakespeare has stood the test of time and can still make people think and laugh. Shakespeare...

Megan MuellerMay 11No Comments

Education For Integrity

Dr. John Mark Reynolds

Dr. John Mark Reynolds

Education For Integrity

Education is possible, but not if we lack integrity. Isn’t it obvious that we need integrity in education? Don’t we need integrity everywhere? Being against a lack of integrity seems as fatuous as the position of the pastor my family knew who summed...

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Education For Joy

Dr. John Mark Reynolds

Dr. John Mark Reynolds

Education For Joy

Kids start education full of wonder. And yet, they often end school eager never to learn again. Much of this is the result of a culture of entertainment. Deep pleasures require work and discipline, and consumer culture does not demand work or discipline....

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Education for Wisdom

Dr. John Mark Reynolds

Dr. John Mark Reynolds

Education for Wisdom

Knowledge is cheap and wisdom is costly. Never pay a school for knowledge: Google knowledge, but pay any price needed for wisdom. In fact, wisdom is so great, so valuable, that anyone who has it knows that she cannot charge what it is worth. The wise...

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