Grammar, Logic and Rhetoric

Liberal Arts Education

What makes an educated person?

A free individual active in civic life

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• Public debate
• Defend oneself
• Serve in court or on jury
• perform militaty service

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A person who is virtuous, ethical, knowledgeable in many fields and highly articulate

NOW:
A well-rounded individual with a wide general knowledge and mastery of a range of transferable skills

What's the difference?

Traditional grammar classes

We start with the functions necessary to be an eloquent speaker

Bloom's Revised Taxonomy

Higher order Thinking Skills
HOTS

Example: asking closed and open questions

Make open ended questions

Is the world a more dangerous place than 50 years ago ?

Are celebrities important in our lives?

What evidence is there that..?

How do you know that..?

When did people start believing that...?

Speculating-What is this object for?

Fact or Opinion?
1) About 80% of the world's population speaks 1% of its languages.
2)The good news is that some minority communities are trying to save their language by setting up special schools to teach their children.

Make these sentences positive

1) My brother's so cheap with his money.
2) The climb up the mountain is difficult.
3)My older sister is very bossy.
4) This type of design is ancient.
5) His sense of style is very unfashionable

False conclusions

Dogs have four legs. Cats have four legs. All cats are dogs.

Oranges are the colour orange. Your shirt is orange. Your shirt is an orange.

Rhetoric

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''The whole art of oratory, as the most and greatest writers have taught us, consists of five parts: invention, arrangement, style, memory and delivery".

Quintilian, Roman rhetorician