For most Americans, what we call “popular culture” provides the horizon, the vocabulary, the texture and rhythm of cultural experience. Trying to establish the presence of the permanent things around which classical schooling is ordered… Continue Reading
One of the elements of classical and Christian thought which is rather in need of restoration today is the concept of civic virtue. In “A Brief History of Civic Virtue,” Veritas humanities and classics teacher Rick Trumbo traces the idea… Continue Reading
Throughout history it often has been said that the process of learning begins with a sense of wonder/awe. It also commonly has been understood that the goal of learning is not merely the acquisition of information but the development of… Continue Reading
Martin Cothran, an experienced debater in print and on radio and television, discusses the important art of persuasion and how to teach it to students. Early Christian thinkers such as St. Augustine took the system of rhetoric originally… Continue Reading
Charter schools, home schools, magnet schools, parental abdication, and economic hardships are only a few of the challenges that Classical Christian schools must face in the future. How can our schools not only maintain, but thrive moving… Continue Reading
This team-taught seminar will focus on the transition from grammar-stage Latin to logic-stage Latin, specifically aiming to develop the ways in which this key transition can be anticipated, executed, and capitalized on in later grades… Continue Reading
Using Aristotle’s thoughts on friendship and E.B. White’s Charlotte’s Web as an example, we will experience an actual lesson in which the great classical thinkers and Biblical principles can be taught at the grammar level and applied to… Continue Reading
The four liberal arts of the Quadrivium: arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music, have been central to the Western vision of education since the time of Plato and Aristotle. They provide crucial tools of learning for many other areas of… Continue Reading
By giving a central place to the treatment of justice in an epic narrative, Paradise Lost arguably intervenes in the “ancient quarrel” between poetry and philosophy. The juxtaposition of mode and topic is striking because the text most… Continue Reading
Jim Van Eerden of the Big Questions with the students in our lives is essential. New resources are generating encouraging results that can hep transform family conversations. Continue Reading
A classical Christian education is both “holistic” and “formative.” It not only provides information for hungry intellects; it should also shape the habits, loves, and longing of students to become people who desire God and his kingdom… Continue Reading
This seminar will trace the history of progressive education, beginning in 1890s with the emergence of several teacher’s colleges that criticized classical learning and advocated a progressive approach that emphasized a differentiated… Continue Reading
