I am very grateful to CAP for initiating this conversation on classical education. After several decades of remarkable success and growth, leaders of the classical liberal arts renewal are in a pos...
Classical education is hard to distill, so to make the thousand-word limit, I’ll turn to metaphors, as they alone offer the bandwidth to make the core concepts clear.
I invoke distillation, which i...
“What is classical education?” is a decidedly Socratic question. Socrates was famous or infamous for posing what we might call the “what is” questions? What is virtue? Courage? Moderation? Piety? ...
One of my favorite interview questions to ask headmaster candidates is, “Can you offer an example of something we could change in our schools that would still allow us to be considered a classical ...
In order to explain classical education, I will start by explaining the words in the phrase—the first word is “classical” and the second word is “education.” The word “classical” is a very ancient ...
Classical education is a kind of learning that refers to the liberal arts. The phrase “liberal arts” has two words—the first word is “liberal” and the second word is “arts.” The word “liberal” come...
