Homeschooling
ReasonRX Podcast Episode 52 Education, Logic, Language, and Blake’s The Tyger
In this episode, we discuss logic — but couched in writing an essay about William Blake’s poem The Tyger, which I actually helped a student …
Body Physics: Motion to Metabolism by Lawrence Davis
Nice idea. I like it some, but not completely. I love that they use biology and biomechanics to develop and give context and meaning to …
MLK on Education
Logic should be part of our education. As Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote in his “The Purpose of Education,” published in the Morehouse College newspaper …
Teach Historically, Teach Inductively
Teach historically. Students need to learn the logic, concept-formation, fallacy identification, induction (i.e., generalization), conceptual integration (i.e., making connections, or “theory building”), and thinking skills …
ReasonRX Podcast Episode 47 Humor Theorist Chris Land on the Nature of Humor and Its Use in Education, Part 1
In this episode, humor theorist Chris Land joins us in a first discussion of what humor is, what you can learn from the art and …
The Value of Sentence Diagramming
Sentence diagramming is a useful tool. In “Eight Benefits of Greek New Testament Sentence Diagramming,” (Sharper Iron, Mar 19 2020), Randy Leedy writes: Sentence diagramming comes into …
ReasonRx Podcast Episode 46 Educators Gail Paquette and Kira Withrow, Mother and Daughter, on Education, Teaching, and Homeschooling
Mother and daughter Gail Paquette and Kira Withrow join us to discuss what education is, what good teaching is, the state of modern education, and …