Reason: Taking Association To a Higher Level
It is fascinating to read Ms. Montessori’s observation and summation of what happened when students worked with rods and beads in learning arithmetic. From pp. …
Logic
Evaluating Studies
Dr. Michael Eades has a post entitled “Baboon Business” that shows how to dissect a scientific study. Dr. Eades says: I’ve read the paper that …
Galileo: A Quote
Contra the Scholastics (and contra Bacon, from what I’ve heard of Bacon — though I’ll have to research on my own to see if Bacon …
Happy Birthday, Sir Francis Bacon
The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy says about Bacon: Sir Francis Bacon (later Lord Verulam and the Viscount St. Albans) was an English lawyer, statesman, essayist, …
Ben Again 2
In a letter to Mary Stevenson (written, it is thought, in November 1760, or sometime in 1761), Mr. Franklin said: My Experiment was this. I …
Integration: A Cardinal Aspect of Reason 2
Matt Ridley writes in the article “The Natural Order of Things” (published Wednesday, 7th January 2009) in The Spectator Magazine: Ideas evolve by descent with …
A Wright Brothers Anecdote
…and Its Lessons for Education. The very good Landmark Books series contains a book about the Wright Brothers entitled The Wright Brothers: Pioneers of American …
Integration: A Cardinal Aspect of Reason
William Harvey discovered circulation in the human body (and in animals) through study of Aristotle’s writings on astronomy and our solar system. Here is a …
The Rules of Definition: For the SAT and Beyond
To properly grasp a concept (beyond a certain level of abstraction), it needs to be defined. “Table” is pretty clear by looking; “republic” is not. …