By RJ Snell, Nov 18, 2009 in Musings, Pedagogy and Teaching
Admissions boards should consider student character as much as, perhaps more than, their ability.
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Living Teachers
By RJ Snell, Nov 2, 2009 in Musings, Academic Life Outside the Classroom
In An Education for our Time, Josiah Bunting suggests that the fictional Adams College ought to hire mentors especially based on "how the candidates have lived their own lives . . . " (210).
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Turning Students Into Farmers
By RJ Snell, Oct 16, 2009 in Musings, Questions, Pedagogy and Teaching
Propriety involves knowing good limits, just like a farmer knows the limits of the land. But much education presses these limits and even exists to transgress them. When do we say "stop"?
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Erotic Teaching (aka Thomism and Connaturality)
By RJ Snell, Sep 23, 2009 in Musings, Pedagogy and Teaching
Universities exist to form lovers, not data masters. It is an erotic education.
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Accreditation Agencies as Occupation Forces
By RJ Snell, Sep 4, 2009 in Musings, Questions, Pedagogy and Teaching
My syllabi are to have course outcomes, measurable course outcomes, the sort of outcomes a scantron can measure. But such a model is fundamentally antithetical to liberal education and ought to be resisted by a "solidarity of the shaken."
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Teaching Sex
By RJ Snell, Aug 28, 2009 in Questions, Pedagogy and Teaching
Does teaching ethics turn students into relativists? Should ethics be taught from within traditions to avoid relativism, or does that foster ideology?
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Why the defenders of the liberal arts are wrong. (Or how Frederick Wilhelmsen gets it almost right.)
By RJ Snell, Jun 20, 2009 in Pedagogy and Teaching
There is no defense of the liberal arts without an adequate epistemology. What is the epistemology provided by the cultured defenders of non-servile arts?
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The Bored Student (part 2)
By RJ Snell, Jun 17, 2009 in Musings, Pedagogy and Teaching
Just as teachers are slothful, students are bored. (a follow-up from part 1, the slothful teacher)
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The Slothful Teacher (Part 1)
By RJ Snell, Jun 15, 2009 in Musings, Pedagogy and Teaching
According to one desert monk, contemporary professors are slothful.
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