President's Page

Welcome to our home!

At the CiRCE Institute, we provide insight, information, and inspiration to classical educators. Therefore, we offer this new web site to you, trusting you will find it fruitful.

We need your feedback. One of our primary goals for this site was to make it easier to navigate. We know that you have come here to find information, so we have made it as easy as possible to locate that content. Even so, be sure to hunt a little too. There are buried treasures that you can find by following links further in and farther up.

For example, What and How To Teach looks like a single innocent web page. In fact, there are two paths you can go by (but in the long run, there's still time to change the road you're on) to learn more about curriculum and teaching in the classical tradition.

But as I said, we need your feedback. Is it easy to find what you are looking for? Can you move through this site without wondering where you are and how you got there?

How would you rate this site for ease of use?

1 = I was chased by the minotaur (translation: it was very confusing)
2 = It was tough, but Ariadne provided a thread (translation: it was OK)
3 = Way to go, Hercules, you cleared out the Augean stables (translation: it was easy)

Our second goal was to make this site more informative. In fact, we want this site to be the most informative web site on classical education in the world. Did we succeed? How can we continue to improve (which we are committed to doing)? What information are you looking for that we can add to this site?

How would you rate this site for quality of information?

A = Wormtongue must have designed this site (translation: full of bad information)
B = Merry and Pippin were involved (translation: not very useful)
C = Samwise Gamgee was behind this (translation: useful and practical)
D = Gandalf is your counsellor, isn't he? (translation: insightful)

To provide your feedback, please write to us at sitefeedback@circeinstitute.org. You don't even need to write anything in your E-mail Just write your scores in the subject line: e.g. 1A (which would break our hearts, but we'd pay attention) or 3D (which would heal our hearts, but we'd still try to improve). If you wish to add comments in the body of the E-mail, please do. We read them all.

We hope you will find this web site so helpful that you will add us to your favorites list and come back frequently. We also hope you will respond to what you see here by visiting our forums and blog. The forums include individual forums on what to teach and how, the meaning of classical education, The Lost Tools of Writing, institutional development, teacher training, our annual conferences, and all our services and resources. Please visit frequently and participate in our endless discussions.

Finally, please make a point of using the information you find here to improve your teaching, governing, and learning at your school or home. And please remember that the CiRCE Institute is a private nonprofit 501(C)3 corporation.

We rely on the generosity of people who dream the same dream, who yearn to see the souls of children nurtured on true, good, and beautiful things so they become wise and virtuous men and women who are able to know, glorify, and enjoy God - the only real hope for humanity and the planet we share. Contributions to the classical Christian vision through the CiRCE Institute are both gratefully received and tax deductible.

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For the children and for the God of the smallest of these,

Andrew Kern
President