I am a classical educator and I have been at this for over thirty years. So when Joelle at Classical Academic Press asks me, “What is classical education?” she puts the question to some...
In a 1405 illumination of Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies, two scenes occur within one image: on the left, a woman in a blue dress with a horned veil headdress reclines at a des...
Sometimes it is tricky communicating what classical education is. I often observe attentive eyes glaze over or rise in panic upon hearing words like “trivium,” “dialectic,” or “liberal arts” for th...
What is classical education? In our modern times, you will find a variety of answers to this question—some quite long and others more succinct. I believe, however, that to properly answer the quest...
“Implicit in the word “character” is a story.” —James Davison Hunter
In the fall of 2015, a runaway sheep named Chris was discovered in the Australian bush. Un-sheared for years, Chris was...
The first question that presents itself when asking, “what is classical education?,” is one of modality: are we talking about a movement, a teaching practice, or something else? If we do n...
