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Our high school students live in a culture where narcissism, materialism, concupiscence, and relativism are nurtured and rewarded. This seminar will look at some practical ways that educators and administrators can cultivate the affections… Continue Reading
Have you been struggling with ideas to implement the trivium in history to your classroom? This is a seminar you should attend to explore new ideas to help your students lean from the ancient world and apply it to the modern classroom. Continue Reading
When classical educators describe the ‘grammar’ of a given subject, they often refer to the ‘information,’ or ‘facts,’ involved in a topic of study. Tje goals of this presentation are twofold: first, to show the educational benefits that… Continue Reading
As the Hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after Thee, Oh God.” Psalm 41:1 A friend of mine posted on Facebook a picture of his high school-aged daughter and some of her friends who attended a private school together… Continue Reading
Our job would be easy if all we had to do was transfer knowledge. If a student really were like an empty bucket that merely needed to be filled in order to be “educated,” then the hardest part of our task as teachers might be deciding what… Continue Reading
John Milton’s Areopagitica stands utterly alone in the great Western intellectual tradition. It was central to the rights of freedom of thought and expression n America’s founding and is the single greatest anti-censorship argument ever… Continue Reading
I don’t like Jane Austen, but I do like those Twilight novels about vampires in love.” “I don’t like Bach. He’s boring! I like rap music a lot better.” “I really liked that movie, especially the part when the slasher cut off the girl’s… Continue Reading
Christian schools have faced great difficulty in the last several decades. Educating students in independent Christian schools—including classical, Christian schools—may become more difficult in the coming years. Those involved in… Continue Reading
Aim at nothing and you will always hit the target.” – Anonymous Reality is more like rocket science than finger painting. Whether we want to admit it or not, reality is exacting. Reality is demanding and to meet its demands, accountability… Continue Reading
Early in his seminal yet humanistic autobiography, Henry Adams declares his thoroughgoing frustration with formalized schooling. “The chief wonder of education,” writes Adams, “is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers… Continue Reading
Assessment—a sweeping, daunting term, describing any number of methods in the field of education. While the very word often unnerves students and faculty alike, the classical grammar school teacher balks not at the excessive triviality of… Continue Reading
Having labored to establish the ends and means of good writing in the last issue, I should very quickly be able to show how a classical education answers them in every particular. Classical education by its very nature invites students to… Continue Reading
