By LOUIS MARKOS Plato's Idea of Standards “Behold,” wrote the ancient Greek philosopher Plato some 2400 years ago, “we are deceived about the very nature of the world in which we live. We are like men who have been imprisoned since birth in the deep belly of a cave....
In my years as a headmaster, I had hopes of making every child understand the ideas of the West, and live out the good, the true, and the beautiful ones. Some did. But others did not. Looking back, more than any idea we taught, the family made all the difference....
Shown above: Icon depicting the Emperor Constantine, accompanied by the bishops of the First Council of Nicaea (325), holding the Niceno–Constantinopolitan Creed of 381. Required memory work at many classical Christian schools, this statement of faith was...
By DOUGLAS WILSON If you are willing to indulge me for a moment, picture two different whales. One of the whales inhabits an ocean that we might call “reality,” or “all that exists.” He is the biggest and strongest resident of that ocean, but he is nevertheless...
The ideas of the West are central to much of the way we live and perceive the world. The Summer 2019 Special Issue of The Classical Difference provides several unique perspectives on these important ideas. Want to dig deeper? The Classical Difference: "The West"...
View LargerThe sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing … to find the place where all the beauty came from.—C.S. Lewis, Till We Have FacesLiberal Arts in the Hortus Deliciarum In the late 1100s Herrad of Landsberg, a nun at the Hohenburg Abbey, put together...
Spring 2019 By Rob Sentz, EMSI As Christians, we can agree that education is about a lot more than securing a good job. In his essay “Our English Syllabus,” C.S. Lewis writes that the purpose of education is to produce the good man, “the man of good taste and good...
Spring 2019 Lent: March 6 - April 18 In my young mind, Mardi Gras was bright purple, yellow, and green. Lent was brown, on the spectrum somewhere between the colors of dust and sackcloth. Brown still seems like a good color for Lent, but in a peaceful and anticipatory...
Employers Don’t Need Data to Know: A Good Employee Is Hard to Find BUT THE DATA DOES BACK THEM UP. Here is a compilation of various sources discussing today's educational needs and shortcomings. Google Study Results In a previous article entitled "Google 'Good...
10 DIFFERENCES BETWEEN “CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS” AND “CLASSICAL CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS”
Winter 2018 “Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.” C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, two of the 20th century’s brightest intellects, built a lifelong friendship on the idea that collaboration is key to success. According to Lewis and...
Winter 2018 “WISDOM BEGINS IN WONDER.” —Socrates My real obsession with literature didn’t begin until I made a second go at college. After a subpar performance in high school, followed by a disastrous first year of college (I was academically dismissed with a 0.00 GPA...
Winter 2018 WANT TO LEARN MORE? Read the Case Study below, or click the button above to hear the BaseCamp Live podcast, "100 Dead in 100 Days - Education as a Killing Machine." Read the story: Africa Bright Future - A Case Study (PDF) by Holly Owens Visit:...
Winter 2018 | Spring 2019 "At 9 o’clock, when the discussions came to an end, my heart would ache from the beauties I’d glimpsed and the searing truths I’d begun to perceive with the help of others who’d also moved from the solitary to the shared...
Winter 2018 Better Than Before: What I Learned About Making and Breaking Habits by Gretchen Rubin One day, I was sitting in the home of an elderly English gentleman named Malcolm, and he set a cup of hot tea in front of me. A long-time anglophile, the...
Some years ago, Regents School of Charlottesville set a promotional video to the song by David Archuleta called “Glorious.”
