2021 Workshop Talk | 47:08 | Academics & Curriculum, Math, Philosophy, Quadrivium
Summary
Aristotle’s Categories was the main introductory text in the dialectic curriculum for centuries. If we return to a close study of it, it might provide a path for reintegrating math and science into the classical perspective. In this workshop, two humanities/logic teachers and a math teacher will introduce the work and discuss how they have begun to see its potential for laying common foundations for humanities, logic, math, and science in classical Christian education.
Speaker
Daniel Jones taught math at University High School in Fresno, California, for fifteen years before joining the Veritas School faculty three years ago. Daniel specializes in teaching geometry according to the classical tradition and teaches all of his math classes “debate-style.” Daniel is married to Adina, a science teacher at Veritas, and has seven children. Both he and Adina grew up in Taipei, Taiwan, as missionary kids.
Geary Linhart has taught rhetoric, logic, and humanities at Veritas School in Newberg, Oregon, for the past 14 years. He has also developed and led the senior project, lovingly called The Poiesis. He has presented at numerous local teacher trainings and seminars. He enjoys time with his wife and three boys, and during the summer leads historical walking tours of Newberg.
After teaching in classical school, college, and homeschool settings in Chicago, Joshua Smith joined Veritas School (Newberg, Oregon) in 2004. Since then he has taught Latin, Greek, and humane letters continuously; along the way he also taught theology for ten years, conducted a number of summer courses for students and faculty in logic and in Latin, and directed a number of drama productions, first as assistant and later as head director. Outside the usual school routine, he helped lead a student trip to Italy and Greece, studied Dante in Italy with the NEH, presented at local and national teaching conferences, guest taught in the honors program at nearby George Fox University, and self-published a dual-language edition of the Aeneid.
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The Association of Classical & Christian Schools presents Repairing the Ruins, the ACCS annual conference, copyright ACCS. You may make additional copies of this recording for use by your school but please do not sell any copies of the recording, or post it on the internet.
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