We want a Christian way of life to be restored within our Christian communities. This “pearl of great price” in education is greatly valued for those who understand its potential, but largely unrecognized by those who do not.
Classical Christian schools are not so much about teaching facts and skills as we are about forming the soul. We’re not so much about subject matter as we are about virtue. We’re not so concerned with making a living as we are living for a greater purpose. In all this, Classical Christian educators lean on the words of Christ in speaking of vocation in Matt. 6: “Seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.”
Classical Christian education nurtures our youth to transfer a genuine Christian way of life for the next generation of believers—a life marked by a deeper understanding of Christ, His universe, His people, and His Way. It’s time to rethink education. Classical Christian education breaks away to re-establish Christianity as a leading voice in our culture. As you’ll see, the difference can be measured many ways.
As you explore more about classical Christian education, we hope you will join us, support your local school, or start a school.
This unique form of ancient education offers so much more than career readiness. Christian leaders and intellectuals, like G.K. Chesterton, have echoed this point for centuries:
“Education is not a subject, and does not deal in subjects. It is instead a transfer of a way of life.”
The novel, as a Western literary tradition, can be traced from the Greek epics of 2000 years ago, through the epics and romances of the medieval ages, down to today’s classics. It was in the Christian West that narrative was refined into this “novel” literary form—the...
James Fenimore Cooper’s The Spy, written in 1821, was the first American novel to become a bestseller at home and abroad. It was also the first historical and patriotic novel written by an American. The Spy is the story of the most elusive and skillful double agent of...
“THE SCORPION AND THE FROG” Double Murder at the River By Reuben Eggleston Lewis Clark Christian School Staff Reporter, Lewiston, ID At 3:27 PM, Thursday, a local frog and an unidentified scorpion drowned in the White River just north of Smallville in what...
This Side of the Wardrobe Lessons from Literature Series: Part I By Louis Markos Lewis’s fifth novel in the Chronicles of Narnia series is set during the Golden Age of Narnia when the four Pevensie children rule from the four thrones in Cair Paravel. Most of this...
By Hannah K. Grieser All five of our kids have attended an ACCS school that welcomes students from a variety of Christian denominations. This means it’s not unusual for some of those denominational differences to surface in casual conversations or in classroom...
By Kristina Cowan Read more: Part I The teachers and the curriculum at classical Christian schools work together to raise up generations of strong, smart, principled human beings, readying them for a time we parents one day won’t see. If we want to secure our...
By William Bryant Q: What about non-Western authors? History? Culture? This curriculum sounds very Anglo-centric. A: We twenty-first century American Christians haven’t settled something in our minds, really settled it, and then unapologetically ordered the...
Victor Davis Hanson recently wrote an article in The New Criterion titled "Classical Patricide." Both Greece and Rome dominated the world stage for centuries. Geographically, they covered large territories and influenced the shape of culture down to present day....
I’d like to ponder something I’ll call "A Tale of Two Dictionaries," and in particular how those two dictionaries define a specific word: "education." The results are enlightening. This short article by The Epoch Times contrasts the contemporary dictionary definition...
By Louis Markos In my essay, I began a series in which I will survey seven dangers that manifested themselves in full in 2020 and link those dangers to the seven Chronicles of Narnia. Here I would like to offer a way to resist those dangers via a key moment in the...
A Wall Street Journal article recently cited a new trend amongst democrats favoring school choice: The good news is that we might find some unity amid such division. A nationwide poll by Echelon Insights in August found that 79% of respondents with an opinion support...
Professor Crawford Gribben, author of Survival and Resistance in Evangelical America, recently wrote an article for The Conversation on the evangelical Christian movement in northern Idaho, in which classical Christian education plays a part. The full article is...
