On October 16, 1854, in Peoria, Illinois, Stephen Douglas finished his 3-hour address and sat down. Abraham Lincoln stood. He “reminded the audience that it was already 5 pm,” and then told them that it would take him at least as long as Mr. Douglas [...]
To download a pdf version of this article, click here. The Scottish Enlightenment philosopher George Turnbull wrote in the eighteenth century that the debate between home education and formal schooling has raged since ancient (Greek) times. Shakespeare took up the same theme in The Two [...]
Taken together, The 5 Environments of Mentoring empower a teacher to do his/her job, which is to inspire self-education and help students follow through. Tutorial Tutorials consist of a teacher and 1-6 students discussing something they have all read. Tutoring is not, as conveyor-belt education [...]
Greece provides us with the history of two very different kinds of education, that of Athens versus Sparta. In Athens parents taught their kids directly until about age 7, when they were enrolled according to parental choice in various free enterprise schools and academies. Anyone [...]
Nothing will have more impact on the future of the world than the future of families. This truism is sobering as we watch the decline of the family. As we consider the industrialized world, it is disturbing to note that even amongst those who espouse, [...]
Society in general is in touch with the need to help prepare our children for the physical changes that come with adolescence. But what of the emotional, social, intellectual and academic ones? Time to Talk to an Emerging Scholar Do you have a child or [...]
Start Thinking About Being a Superb Grandparent An excerpt from Leadership Education: The Phases of Learning... The true test of leadership is grandparenting. Everything else falls short. And it is not enough to grand-parent just your posterity. Grandchildren get married; superb grandparents know that they [...]
Some of the greatest researchers in childhood behavior (Jean Piaget, Erik Erikson, and Dr. Raymond and Dorothy Moore) agree that children pushed academically at an early age tend to burn out early in adulthood, or long before. Young children do soak up learning like a [...]
The following is an excerpt from The Phases of Learning by Oliver and Rachel DeMille “... a mentor insisted that the most important lessons of Western Civilization were to be found in its stories, literature, poetry and art. "At first Oliver resisted, even to such [...]
I recently wrote an article entitled “Eight Words for Education.” A few days later, I came across a similar list outlined by the sixteenth century scholar Roger Ascham (best known for tutoring the children of Henry VIII and navigating that turbulent court without losing his [...]
