Not trivial
Subtitle: how studying the traditional liberal arts can set you free
By: Laurie Endicott Thomas
Publisher: Freedom of Speech Publishing
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Leawood, Kansas
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9781938634994
Subjects: Humanistic Education; Higher Education; College students; Universities and colleges; Educational planning
Table of contents: title: Part I. Literacy (The studies that are appropriate for free people; title: Learning to read); title: part II. The trivium (Grammar, freedom, and humanity; title: Grammar, rules, and personality; title: Arguments good and bad; title: Grammar, logic, and character; title: Definitions and groups; title: Strong and weak arguments; title: Logic and persuasion; title: Cause and effect; title: Rhetoric); title: part III. Propaganda and politics (Propaganda; title: Naturally, the common people don't want war; title: Resisting propaganda; title: Right and Left; title: Conspiracy theories and real-life conspiracies; title: part IV. The politics of education (The legacy of John Dewey; title: Traditional or progressive?; title: How foundations and corporations suppressed phonics; title: Why bad teaching methods persist; title: Equality, meritocracy, and elitism; title: Willful ignorance as a strategy for success; title: A man's a man for a' that); title: part V. Grammar and morality (I and you, we and them; title: He, she, and they; title: Thou shalts, and thou shalt nots; title: Grammar, morals, and principles); title: part VI. A language arts curriculum (Teaching, grammar, teaching writing; title: Finding the right word; title: Are your nouns doing your verbs?; title: Parsing and the garden path effect; title: Unscrambling scrambled sentences; title: Making big sentences from little sentences, and vice versa; title: Unity and coherence in paragraphs; title: Composition); title: part VII. How can these problems be solved? (Education yourself, educate others).