Classical Christian Education, the latest, cutting edge curricular development in American education, was also the educational Gold Standard in the United States from the Colonial Era until after World War II. Critics arose, however, as… Continue Reading
A speechwriter from Vice President George Bush once prepared a stump speech peppered with a bit of Thucydides, a Greek historian of the fifth century B.C. But after the Vice President tripped over the name one time too many, another… Continue Reading
Let’s start with full disclosure. I’ve been a debate coach for precisely eight months. My school, like many of yours, teaches debate as part of our middle and upper school curriculum. I started our in-school debate program four years ago… Continue Reading
Following the establishment of Jamestown as the first permanent English settlement in the New World in 1607, it was set up to be the center of the Virginia Colony’s government and commerce. However, the inhospitable swampy and… Continue Reading
Dear C, Everywhere I turn, spiritual formation is the topic of conversation in Christian schooling circles. Always, however, from the point of view that schools are missing the boat by neglecting spiritual formation of students and that… Continue Reading
Today we read of “empty rhetoric,” “mere rhetoric,” and even “violent rhetoric”. The term is present in our daily lives, yet only rarely it is used properly. Ask the average man on the street, or in this author’s case, the average college… Continue Reading
Walker Buckalew Executive Consultant, Independent School Management In additon to his role as a consultant with ISM, a firm serving more than 4,000 school clients, Dr. Buckalew is also the author of eight non-fiction books and three… Continue Reading
Glenn Arbery Senior Editor, People Newspapers and Adjunct Professor at University of Dallas After finishing his degree at the University of Dallas, Glenn Arbery taught literature at the University of St. Thomas in Houston and Thomas More… Continue Reading
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
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
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
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
