How Classical Education Shapes Us as God Intended
BY BRAD GREEN This post was originally published at The Gospel Coalition. A funny thing happened as the 20th century came to a close. A number of Christians began to form what were being called “classical and Christian” schools. Believers who would have been (or were) involved in their local traditional Christian school or public [...]
Tolkien, Faeries, and Creation: A Featured Article
BY ANDREW SEELEY My family has a standing joke about my talks and articles – no matter what the subject, Papa somehow manages to work Tolkien into every one. Probably an exaggeration, and I certainly don’t “manage” it; Tolkien’s works have found a privileged place in that central storage of thought and image known as [...]
The Greatest of All Things
This article was originally published in The Journal, the magazine of the Society for Classical Learning. As the Hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after Thee, Oh God. Psalm 41:1 A friend of mine posted on Facebook a picture of his high school aged daughter and some of her friends who attended [...]
Cultivating the Affections
This article was originally published in The Journal, the magazine of the Society for Classical Learning. Our job would be easy if all we had to do was transfer knowledge. If a student really were like an empty bucket that merely needed to be filled in order to be “educated”, then the hardest part of [...]
Classical Education After the Digital Revolution – Part 3 of 3
BY MICHAEL SACASAS This is part 3 of a 3 part series. For part one click here and for part two click here. Facts, as the saying goes, are stubborn things, and I do not mean to disparage them [in the previous two parts of this series]. They are indispensable. The first stage of the [...]
Classical Education After the Digital Revolution – Part 2 of 3
BY MICHAEL SACASAS This is part 2 of a 3 part series. For part one click here. I think you will find among classical educators, homeschool parents included, the conviction that education is a sacred and moral undertaking aimed at something more than earning good money, achieving distinction, or even accumulating knowledge for its own [...]
Classical Education After the Digital Revolution – Part 1 of 3
BY MICHAEL SACASAS The genesis of this essay was a little known work by the late Marshall McLuhan. McLuhan is best remembered for pithy phrases such as “the medium is the message” and “the global village” that captured the dynamic consequences of media and technology. He is widely recognized as a prophet of the digital [...]
Boyhood at Risk (Part One)
I lay on my back, starring at the sky with my feet above me on the hill. My bike flew overhead – that much I knew – but where it landed was a mystery. The ditch crept up on me, as tends to happen on unfamiliar roads, while I was trying my best to keep [...]
Dealing with “Senioritis”
Every teacher that has twelfth grade students understands “senioritis” and its symptoms – lack of focus, daydreaming, poor attitudes, slackening work ethic. Of course, such symptoms could be said to describe all high school students at one time or another. True enough, but seniors tend to have them in heavier doses. Growing restless, occupied with [...]
The Business of a College Education
There is an interesting conversation going on right now about college education. Skyrocketing tuition costs and a serious economic depression have combined to create a large group of highly educated but unemployed people saddled with serious college debt. As a result, many people are beginning to question what just a decade ago was a self-evident [...]
