Category Archives: teaching

Passion for Learning

Posted on January 13, 2013 by Matthew Phillips

“Let me, at the outset, begin with a caution.  No master can endow a careless and indifferent nature with the true passion for learning.  That a young man must acquire for himself.  But once the taste begins to develop, then … Continue reading →

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Schools, Pastors, and Preachers

Posted on December 6, 2012 by Matthew Phillips

“Now I have preached and written a great deal urging that good schools should be established in the cities in order that we might produce educated men and women, whence good Christian pastors and preachers might come forth so that … Continue reading →

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Medieval University Students

Posted on November 29, 2012 by Matthew Phillips

“They attend classes but make no effort to learn anything….Such are the limbs of Satan rather than of Christ….And these persons who go to a university but do not study cannot with clear consciences enjoy the privilege of the fruits … Continue reading →

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Obstacles to Study

Posted on November 25, 2012 by Matthew Phillips

“There are three things above all which ordinarily provide obstacles for the studies of students: carelessness, imprudence, and bad luck (fortuna).  Carelessness arises when we simply omit, or when we learn less carefully, those things which are there to be … Continue reading →

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Rulers Must Not Ignore History

Posted on October 27, 2012 by Matthew Phillips

“He who diligently examines past events easily foresees future ones in every country and can apply to them the remedies used by the ancients or, not finding any that have been used, can devise new ones because of the similarity … Continue reading →

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The Necessity of Historians

Posted on October 12, 2012 by Matthew Phillips

“Triumphal arches add to the glory of illustrious men only when the writing upon them informs in whose honor they have been reared, and why.  It is the inscription that tells the spectator that the triumphal arch is that of … Continue reading →

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Encouraging zeal for inquiry

Posted on September 5, 2012 by Matthew Phillips

“Eagerness to inquire relates to practice and in it the student needs encouragement rather than instruction.  Whoever wishes to inspect earnestly what the ancients in their love of wisdom have handed down to us, and how deserving of posterity’s remembrance … Continue reading →

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Early Elementary Teaching

Posted on September 3, 2012 by Matthew Phillips

“One must lead the child to declensions and to conjugations at the same time as he is learning his letters.  Because, from the fact that the same word changes case and gender, that the first syllables remain and that the … Continue reading →

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Devotion to the Subject

Posted on August 10, 2012 by Matthew Phillips

“Devotion to the subject is the one factor which inspires both sound learning and sound teaching.  If one is really keen on a discipline, one’s enthusiasm will usually communicate itself to the students.  Even if they do not share it … Continue reading →

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God never stops teaching

Posted on July 18, 2012 by Matthew Phillips

…and Christians never stop learning. “God Himself is not ashamed to teach these things daily.  He knows nothing better to teach.  He always keeps teaching the same thing and does not take up anything new or different.  All the saints … Continue reading →

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