The Tools of Education: The Liberal Arts

https://youtu.be/xa9Zw5l4ugU Gram loquitur, Dia verba docet, Rhet verba colorat,Mus canit, Ar numerat, Geo ponderat, Ast colit astra. Few have encountered that Latin couplet today, but Lewis introduces it by saying: Everyone knows that the Arts are Grammar, Dialectic, Rhetoric, Arithmetic, Music, Geometry, and Astronomy. And almost everyone has met the mnemonic couplet" (The Discarded Image, …

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Which Catechism Should I Use?

A few weeks ago, my wife reminded me of an experience early in our marriage that set the stage for my love of catechisms. We were speaking with a husband and wife who were Jehovah's Witness in our home, and the wife shared her testimony of why she left her Methodist upbringing to join the …

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