What Is Education For?

Everyone is in favor of education, but not everyone can say exactly what they mean by the word. To some, education consists of training in practical skills that can lead to a job; to some it is preparing for tests that will increase the likelihood of getting into a good school; to others it increasingly means indoctrinating children into certain political ideologies. This is why there are so many disagreements on teaching pedagogy and curriculum: Read more…

Book Review: The Seven Laws of Teaching

First penned in 1886, The Seven Laws of Teaching was written by a man named John Milton Gregory (1822-1898), who wrote the book for Sunday school teachers in the churches of which he was a part. His aim was to provide these volunteer teachers with the sine qua non of their craft, the basic principles of teaching without which teaching disintegrates into something else entirely. For its clear-eyed and systematic exposition of teaching’s basic principles—which Read more…

Northstar Classical Scores in the Top 2%

In the summer of 2015, four friends in southwest Ohio gathered in a living room to share their hopes and dreams for their children’s education. They were captivated by this thing called “classical education,” by the idea that education is about one generation passing on its culture to the next and forming whole human persons, rather than simply outfitting workers for the economy. Audrey and Clay Davis and Wes and McKenzie Brooks gathered together that Read more…

Classical Education Today: Counterfeit or Real?

In his excellent article, “Why a Classical Education Is Almost Impossible Today,” Shawn Barnett points out that much of the education that flies the banner of “classical education” is not classical in the, shall we say, “classical sense.” Barnett criticizes what he calls “a gross oversimplification” of the story of education, pointing out that there were other forms of education that were not classical before 1900. He cites this date from the timeline of the Read more…

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