Curriculum Archives : Professor Carol

The Language of Fine Arts

January 7, 2019August 23, 2015 by Professor Carol

Planning for the new academic year? It’s happening everywhere, from the teacher’s lounge to the homeschool kitchen. To us here at Professor Carol, this is a season of hope and challenge. How many people will recognize the intrinsic value of setting the Fine Arts into … Read more

The Place of Arts in the Curriculum

November 11, 2022January 4, 2011 by Professor Carol

Curriculum. Is there a word that grabs our attention more quickly? Especially when the choices are so rich and, potentially, overwhelming? Well, what would you expect from a word that means “race course”! Yes, curriculum comes directly from the Latin verb currere—to run. Common words … Read more

And Then There's This . . .

Vince Bielski, When Classical Learning Meets Public Education the Dialogue Isn’t Always Socratic. “Classical education, whose name gained traction in the 1980s to evoke the movement’s focus on liberal arts and the Western canon, is struggling to overcome local political opposition.”

Peter Wood, After College: The Coming Cultural Collapse of Higher Education. “Students graduate with a veneer of knowledge rather than a core. An increasingly obsolescent institution has wedded itself to an increasingly noisome cultural stance.”

Anthony Esolen, Heap Songs Upon Their Heads. “We are the most beauty-starved people, I am persuaded, who have ever trod the earth.”

Gregory Wolfe, The Wound of Beauty. “The time has come to bring beauty back, to give it the glass slipper and invite it to the prom.”