2017 Workshop Talk | 0:47:40 | All Grade Levels, Science
Summary
Human fascination with birds has a long and compelling history. G.K. Chesterton once said that “a turkey is more occult and awful than all the angels and archangels.” The Bible regularly uses bird imagery to depict a soul both happy and loved, from the eagle of Isaiah to the birds of the air that Christ tells us to consider.
This workshop will discuss how well birding and the classical education movement complement each other.
The study of birds is as classical as Roman auguries and the Capitoline Geese. Additionally, bird watching teaches students the skill of observation, offers quick pay-off (doves and English sparrows surround us), and long-lasting satisfaction as birders search for rarer species. It not only encourages students to be outside; it encourages them to look up and around in any season and in any place. And of course, it is yet another outlet for Latin. Serious birders can call the mockingbird by its other name, the Mimus polyglottos.
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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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