Truly Classical, Truly Contemporary: Implementing The 7 Liberal Arts
Audio recording from Summer Conference 2009. Continue Reading
Date posted06/25/2009
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How Public Education Cripples Our Kids and Why
Mass schooling of a compulsory nature really got its teeth into the United States between 1905 and 1915, though it was conceived of much earlier and pushed for throughout most of the nineteenth century. The reason given for this enormous… Continue Reading
Date posted06/1/2009
Why Schools Teach But Don’t Educate
Jacques Barzun in his book Teacher in America satirizes the way many use the word “education” as the great solution – “education” is meant to do everything the world leaves undone so the prevailing dogma has become that “education is the… Continue Reading
Date posted06/1/2009
Can Good Government Save Us?
I think the poet Catullus is noted first to have said, “The government that governs least, governs best.” Paine, Jefferson and Thoreau each followed with their own versions of the sentiment, though each also with their own intent. As a… Continue Reading
Date posted06/1/2009
Policing or Mentoring? A Tale of Two Colleges
The dean of students at a Christian college learned that a group of students planned to visit a popular local bar one Friday night. He and his deputy crafted an ingenious plan to address the problem. They left their homes and families… Continue Reading
Date posted06/1/2009
Jefferson and Wilberforce: Leaders Who Changed Their Times with Lessons for Ours
In the beginning there was a triangle – an unholy triangle- a three sided journey by ship that brought unsurpassed wealth to millions for over four centuries. From the 15th to the 19th century, the unholy triangle held sway over the… Continue Reading
Date posted06/1/2009
The Big Challenge: Can We Beat the Rising Cost of Christian Schooling?
Retiring Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI) President Ken Smitherman is sounding the alarm. According to a study of ACSI tuition statistics, over the past twenty years ACSI member school costs have risen an average of… Continue Reading
Date posted06/1/2009
Reading Movies: A New Curricular Need for a Post-Literate Culture
How can an evangelical Christian, trained in literature by a champion of classical education, himself a book loving English teacher and C.S. Lewis scholar (nay, fanatic), possibly argue that schools which ground their philosophy in a… Continue Reading
Date posted06/1/2009
What Kind of Citizens Will Classical Students Be?
The American Civic Literacy Program recently published the results of a test that asked basic questions covering American history, government, and economics. The average score from a sample of 2,500 Americans was a dismal 49%… Continue Reading
Date posted06/1/2009
Taking the Trivium to the Marketplace
As Christians, we are directed by Christ to take the gospel to all the world. It is intuitively obvious how the “Christian” part of classical, Christian education supports our obedience. Do we understand, however, what a powerful tool the… Continue Reading
Date posted06/1/2009
The Roots of America, Watered
We find in every human endeavor two types of practitioner: the technician and the creator. The technician prides himself in his practicality, by which he means his ability to resolve an immediate problem. The creator sees his work in the… Continue Reading
Date posted06/1/2009
George Washington’s Classical Leadership Style
For classical education to realize its full leader- forming potential, our students must be steeped in stories that illustrate classical values. We accomplish this by teaching stories that tell us something transcendent about the human… Continue Reading
Date posted06/1/2009