Category Archives: Post-Secondary Education

What Good Are Exams?

Posted on December 24, 2018 by

Over the past few years, I have grown more concerned about the negative effects of written exams on our students. In spite of our efforts to promote “learning for its own sake”, and success in generating engaging discussions ‘from time … Continue reading →

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Esolen Describes Beautiful Schools

Posted on November 25, 2018 by

https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2018/11/24/unplanned-the-fresh-air-comes/ Anthony Esolen shares his delight in being a part of a small, fully intentional Catholic educational community in ways that many of us have been blessed to recognize: Yesterday as I was walking to class, two of my students, … Continue reading →

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Stories in Don Quixote

Posted on August 21, 2012 by

“Idle Reader” is the way Cervantes chooses to address his audience at the beginning of the Prologue to Don Quixote, and it points to one of the background social problems of the work.  In the early seventeenth century Spain of … Continue reading →

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