You still have time to sign up for our March webinar, but not much! Join us today at 4:00 p.m. EST. Are you new to classical education? Or maybe you’re a veteran classical educator who’s always on the lookout for resource recommendations? If either of these descriptions applies to you, we hope Read more…
My recent article in The Old Schoolhouse magazine on the classical education of the founding fathers: Many Christian educators teach their children about the men who founded the United States of America, and they focus on students becoming familiar with who they were and what they did. But if we Read more…
There are a lot of books on education, but very few that are very good. Here are five books that cut to the chase of what education is and how it should be done: Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture, by Werner Jaeger. Jaeger was a German scholar writing in Read more…
Well, it’s National Penmanship Day, which gives us a great excuse to extol the benefits of cursive handwriting. But why should we have to do it when we have Iris Hatfield, creator of New American Cursive, to do it for us? Here is Iris’ appearance this morning on WHAS-TV in Read more…
Writing in the Intercollegiate Review, Gary Olmstead answers the question, “Why Read Literature?” There were times during college when writer’s block threatened me with failing grades or missed deadlines. Scrambling for inspiration, I’d pick up a book—perhaps something I was reading for Western Lit, or a book I’d perused during Read more…
Well, indirectly. Sort of. Gene Edward Veith is culture editor of World Magazine and executive director of the Cranach Institute at Concordia Theological Seminary in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. In a recent blog post, he applies the principles of Aristotle’s Poetics to The Last Jedi, the new Star Wars movie. It Read more…
On today’s date in AD 49, Caesar crossed the Rubicon. Why is that significant? There are certain historical events that have a significance beyond the immediate fact that they happened, and Caesar’s action in crossing a tiny river is one of them. After years of war in Britain and Gaul, Read more…
I walked into the Dunkin’ Donuts shop this morning (it’s a guilty pleasure), and one of the people in the back said to the others, “It’s the shortest day today.” The cashier in front of me got a funny look on her face. So, in order to clarify, I said Read more…
On this day in 43 BC, the great Roman statesman Cicero was assassinated by followers of the Triumvirate. The group of three consuls–Marc Anthony, Octavian, and Lepidus–had named Cicero an enemy of the state because of his defense of the Roman Republic against those who were pushing for an imperial Read more…
We’ve all heard our share of common folk myths—things people think have been proved true, but which in fact are simply myths. Often their only authority is the number of times they have been repeated. The average person eats four spiders in his sleep over the course of his life; Read more…