Some ancient educational theorists, like Plato and Aristotle, have argued that only a select few should be qualified to participate in a liberal education. Even modern theorists, like Jacques Barzu...
As the Headmaster of the Rafiki Classical Christian School in rural Zambia, I hear this question often. Currently, our school, which includes Early Childhood classes through Grade 12, is the on...
Before we try to answer the question of whether classical education is for every child, we should ask how that question is different from the seemingly simpler question of whether education (withou...
Although most classical educators, myself included, are highly critical of the pragmatic-progressivist pedagogical theories of John Dewey (1859–1952), Dewey’s desire to provide an education that wo...
Throughout most of human history, across many cultures, the best education was reserved for the few. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the concept of universal education was promulgate...
The question at hand is whether or not Mortimer Adler was correct in asserting, “The best education for the best is the best education for all.” (He was actually quoting his colleague Robert Ma...
