How God built and wired us...

Today I attended several lectures at Veritas Press' Teacher's Training Conference. At the end of a long day of computer time, I am amazed at how God wonderfully made us as men and women.  I am amazed that the basic strategy for teaching art well and to the nature of our students is the same as teaching music, or English composition, or any other discipline area.  You figure out the God-given grammar of the subject, and train students with increasing skill and discernment, by looking at what masters in that discipline have done before us, to use that grammar in the building of something beautiful.  It is the way God built and wired us to learn.  And it is why I think classical Christian education, which builds on a long history of this approach to learning, is the best way to go.