Lately, I have been thinking more about SteveH’s experience of an elementary teacher dismissing his young son’s knowledge of geography as “mere facts” because I have steered my family’s educational boat even more towards the classical model over the last year or so. (We have even started Classical Conversations one day a week, the model of which would horrify the type of folks who say “drill and kill.”)
via kitchen table math, the sequel: Gutting Out the Grammar.