About ten or eleven years ago, my friend Andrew Kern came to speak at The Geneva School in Winter Park, Florida. I hate to admit it, but I don’t recall the specific topic of the talk he gave to the...

Some say that classical education is rigorous. My response to this is both “yes” and “no.”

Students are often expected to write with no clear model before them.

As I present seminars on classical education and train teachers around the country, I find that this question—What is classical education?—persists.

The spring before I left for college, my family experienced a trauma that has deeply affected our lives ever since.

Just recently, at a company “Scholé Lunch,” we read and discussed Walt Whitman’s poem “A Noiseless, Patient Spider.”