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.”