Originally published in Classis Volume XIX, No. 37 During a discussion with William Buckley on Buckley’s Firing Line program in 1988, Mortimer Adler said, “When the great books are well taught in a seminar, they are not taught as antiquities, they...
Originally published in ClassisVolume XXVII, No. I7 “Cramming works fine in a pinch. It just doesn’t last. Spacing does.” Benedict Carey, How We Learn. For readers of John Milton Gregory’s The Seven Laws of Teaching, the idea that students need...
Originally published in Classis Volume XV, no. 3 In Marshall McLuhan's famous phrase, 'the medium is the message'. That is, the way an idea is presented or delivered may often communicate more powerfully than the content of the message itself....