Extra Credit is not Classical
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by Margot Nyberg
1w ago
 At the beginning of the year when going over my classroom and grading policies, a student asked the question, “What kinds of extra credit opportunities do you give?” Many other students perked up visibly and were looking at me with intent and expectant looks. To tell the truth, I wasn’t quite expecting this question, which […] The post Extra Credit is not Classical appeared first on CiRCE Institute ..read more
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On Scholars, Hubris, and the Inescapable Gravity of Nature
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by Stephen Conner
1w ago
This article is the first in a new column, The Student’s Stylus, highlighting outstanding student essays. What are the costs of conquering nature? What happens when the consequences of such a feat rebound to its agent? Skalds, writers, and storytellers of every era have shown through their tales the gravity of these undertakings. Consider the […] The post On Scholars, Hubris, and the Inescapable Gravity of Nature appeared first on CiRCE Institute ..read more
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Practicing Resurrection
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by Rachel Woodham
1w ago
How am I supposed to practice resurrection? I didn’t know what else to do, so we went fishing. Lake Lafayette was swollen from a flash flood in the early morning hours. My son showed me the rock he stood on the afternoon before—it was at least six inches underwater. It was a rare April day—the […] The post Practicing Resurrection appeared first on CiRCE Institute ..read more
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A High School Boy Explains Why He Keeps Untucking His Uniform Shirt
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by Joshua Gibbs
2w ago
I’d like to do something a little odd. I’d like to explain why I always have my shirt untucked at school. I’m about to graduate, I don’t have much to lose in speaking plainly with you people, so I’m going to do it. No doubt, you people have wondered why it’s necessary to tell me […] The post A High School Boy Explains Why He Keeps Untucking His Uniform Shirt appeared first on CiRCE Institute ..read more
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Scalar Harmony: Institutional Reflections on Mind, Body, and Soul
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by Isaiah Nixon
3w ago
A student bends down to shuffle through his backpack for an assignment, only to find papers out of place, pencils missing, and the blood of his peanut butter and jelly seeping through canvas fabric. Zoom out. At a semester training, a teacher is asked to reflect upon why he teaches. He mulls swiftly through the […] The post Scalar Harmony: Institutional Reflections on Mind, Body, and Soul appeared first on CiRCE Institute ..read more
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Lessons from Lewis’s “Learning In War-Time”
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by Lindsey Ralls
3w ago
In October of 1939, at St. Mary’s Church in Oxford, C.S. Lewis spoke to an audience of undergrads who were questioning the futility of a college education in the midst of a country at war. To them, attending lectures and writing papers bordered on frivolity and selfishness when their fellow countrymen were fighting, not only […] The post Lessons from Lewis’s “Learning In War-Time” appeared first on CiRCE Institute ..read more
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Against Servant Leadership
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by Joshua Gibbs
3w ago
At the crucial moment in Shakespeare’s Henry V, the titular king does something that very few “servant leaders” are capable of doing: he delivers a rousing speech. On the morning when the English are to fight the French at Agincourt, Henry overhears his cousin Westmoreland complaining about how few men they have. The English are […] The post Against Servant Leadership appeared first on CiRCE Institute ..read more
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Unmodernizing Ourselves
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by Travis Copeland
1M ago
Recently, I concluded my first proper reading of G.K. Chesterton’s Orthodoxy. Exploring the whole of Chesterton’s thinking and argument, I was repeatedly struck by how much Chesterton detests modernity. Modernity for Chesterton is obstinate, an oddity that isolates itself from the rest of history, contradictory, and empty. As I watched him tear down modernity, I […] The post Unmodernizing Ourselves appeared first on CiRCE Institute ..read more
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Talking With Teens About Whether Heaven Will Be Boring
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by Joshua Gibbs
1M ago
It is a more common fear among Christian high school students than you might think. In the last ten years, I have regularly encountered Christian teenagers who worry that heaven will either be boring or that it won’t be nearly as interesting as life on earth. This was also a worry of mine when I […] The post Talking With Teens About Whether Heaven Will Be Boring appeared first on CiRCE Institute ..read more
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The Blind Leading the Blind…Over a Cultural Cliff
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by Claudia Kapusinski
1M ago
“Only a woman can teach girls what it means to be a woman…” (Sax, Girls on the Edge, p. 231) Shortly before I commenced my teaching career back in 2017, it was recommended that I peruse the writing of Leonard Sax, MD, Ph.D., a New York Times best-selling author whose work in researching and documenting […] The post The Blind Leading the Blind…Over a Cultural Cliff appeared first on CiRCE Institute ..read more
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