(A Mother Makes All the Difference) by Oliver DeMille Grades or Education? I heard a story recently that really made me think. It was recounted by the mother of a college student who visited home after her first semester and confided in her parents that [...]
by Oliver DeMille "Stop Learning and Pay Attention" I wanted to remember the details of a point I made in a recent discussion from our “Mentoring the Classics” online course, so I went to my files and perused my notes. As I read through the [...]
by Oliver DeMille A Review of Allen Levie’s “The Visual Tradition,” unpublished paper Educational/Political/Social thinker Allen Levie has an interesting and often refreshing way of reframing things. I was recently struck by his description of three types of education: Learning built on the oral tradition [...]
By Becca Thornton Schoolhouses are made wrong. If they must be, they should be built in a woods pasture beside a stream, where you could wade, swim, and be comfortable in summer, and slide and skate in winter. The windows should be cut to the [...]
by Oliver DeMille Are you an "Anti-reader"? Are you an "anti-reader"? No matter how much you love to read, or how much you encourage others to read, you just might be. It’s surprising, but there are actually a lot of people who argue against reading—in [...]
by Oliver DeMille Mazes and Levels Most organizations start out with a great mission, then run into challenges and focus on survival, then want to grow and shift their focus to trying to impress the world. Eventually they become a roadblock to the very [...]
by Oliver DeMille Dislike or Disagree Rachel glanced at the book on the back seat, then picked it up. “This looks really interesting,” she said. She thumbed through a few pages, then stopped and read silently. She skimmed a few more pages, came to a [...]
by Oliver DeMille Draw a Picture “But I told him exactly what to do,” I said slowly, emphatically. “I even repeated it, then had him echo the expectation back to me to make sure he got it.” I shook my head in frustration. “Four hours [...]
By Oliver DeMille “I’ll Think While You Read” It’s one of the most profound sentences I’ve ever read. Deep. Powerful. Moving. It comes from Chaim Potok’s classic book The Chosen, wherein the main characters are two 15-year-old boys. They meet at a baseball game where [...]
