Quiddity is Moving!

The CiRCE Institute has a beautiful new website and Quiddity is part of it. Please click HERE to visit the blog and please update your links to Quiddity for the convenience of our mutual visitors. Thank you! We hope that this new website (created with help from the fine folks at Blackwood Media Group) will [...]

“Teaching Attentiveness” – chatting today @ 3pm ET.

Teaching Attentiveness

Why the Short Story?

When I was in high school I remember feeling some strange disappointment when I would come across a book of short stories by an author whose novel’s I admired or when I was assigned a story for school. I loved to read and always had, and did so a fair amount, but I found that [...]

Live Chat …. 3 pm….6/17

Join us as we discuss….all things classical ed. 3 pm. http://www.circeinstitute.org/onlinechats.shtml

2010 Conference Reading List

Are you registered for the upcoming summer conference? If so, you can prepare by reading the following books. This list will be updated from time to time so add a bookmark and check back soon! THE ABOLITION OF MAN The Magna Carta The Constitution of the United States The Declaration of Independence Two more added: [...]

Meet the Speaker: Leigh Bortins

{EDITOR’S NOTE: The following post is the first in a series dedicated to introducing to the readers of Quddity the men and women who will speaking at this summer’s CiRCE Conference: A Contemplation of Liberty. Up first is Leigh Bortins, of Classical Conversations.} BIOGRAPHY: Leigh Bortins is a nationally acclaimed educator, perhaps best known for [...]

The 2010 Lost Tools of Writing Essay Contest

High school students, don’t miss this opportunity to win a prize of up to $500! ABOUT THE CONTEST: Education and Liberty are themes as American as baseball and apple pie. Yet, much of American literature, and most of American pop culture see the two as antithetical. Some people seem to see school as a barrier [...]

From the CiRCE Store this Christmas

Looking for a gift this Christmas? Why not consider our 2009 Christmas CD set, The Incarnation of Christ: A Christmas Celebration? This six-CD set contains some of our favorite conference recordings, specifically selected for Christmas. The perfect gift for a teacher, parent, or head of school who hopes to cultivate wisdom and virtue in their [...]

Rallying the Really Human Things: Excerpt Now Available!

Now available as part of our Further Up & Further In fund raising campaign is part I of Dr. Vigen Guroian’s wonderful book Rallying The Really Human Things. This fascinating first section is called “The Three Voices of Christian Humanism” and examines the work of GK Chesterton, Flannery O’Connor, and Russell Kirk. The PDF version [...]

Further Up & Further In with CiRCE…

As you regular readers well know, we have recently kicked off a new fund raising campaign that, borrowing from C.S. Lewis’s fantastic Narnia book, The Last Battle, we are calling Further Up & Further In. The purpose of this campaign is to raise funds so that we will be able to more effectively fulfill our [...]