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Phillip J. Donnelly, PhD, is Professor of Literature for the Great Texts Program in the Honors College at Baylor University. He is the author of The Lost Seeds of Learning: Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric as Life-Giving Arts (Classical Academic Press) and Milton’s Scriptural Reasoning (Cambridge University Press). He has worked with Classical schools for about twenty years, helping faculty discern how a Christian understanding of the verbal arts can inform their daily work as educators.
A panel of scholars will lead attendees through a reading and discussion of two key passages on education — one from Plato and another from Augustine — that form the basis for what we now refer to as the Socratic method. Come ready to practice the very habits we aim to instill in our own students.
Participants will learn from primary sources what “Socratic instruction” actually is. Workshop leaders will also model how to lead a class discussion; attendees will see and experience firsthand how to lead a discussion through great texts. The exercise is also valuable model that can be replicated in the school’s in-house faculty development session.
Phillip J. Donnelly, PhD, is Professor of Literature for the Great Texts Program in the Honors College at Baylor University. He is the author of The Lost Seeds of Learning: Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric as Life-Giving Arts (Classical Academic Press) and Milton’s Scriptural Reasoning (Cambridge University Press). He has worked with Classical schools for about twenty years, helping faculty discern how a Christian understanding of the verbal arts can inform their daily work as educators.