Alumni Profile You’re sitting down for dinner with the family, and your senior—who has attended a classical Christian school since kindergarten—suddenly blurts, “Mom and Dad, I don’t think I want to take the traditional path and go to college.” You blink and look at...
Jake has a hard time trying to learn something he doesn’t easily understand. If he gets an answer wrong, his head goes down on the desk and he struggles to pull it together. The teacher has notified his parents and the parents share that Jake is “on the spectrum.” ...
As much as I’d like the Church calendar to set the rhythm of my life, it’s the school calendar. The Church year is varied, shimmering, dappled—the school calendar, not so much. Nine and a half months of the Apollonian followed by ten weeks of the Dionysian. A lot of...
By Stormy Goodwin January was moving month at the ACCS. As old issues of The Classical Difference were lifted from dusty boxes onto freshly painted shelves, we reminisced. The first box revealed a headline in bright orange: “A New Lesson in Rwanda: A War, a Teacher,...
TAZARA RAILWAY LINKING ZAMBIA AND TANZANIA: PHOTO BY KATSUMA TANAKA ON UNSPLASH Part II* - Zambia (Read Part I) In September, 2023, a few weeks before David Goodwin and Tim Dernlan (ACCS president and vice president, respectively) were scheduled to depart for Africa,...
"Years ago, I realized that if my children wanted to feel like their house was a home, I needed to be intentional about making our physical shelter a place of spiritual refuge. The work of home-maker suddenly became holy work. My perspective had changed." On one of...
LIAM MCCALMON, a fifth grade student at Agathos Classical School in Columbia, TN, has used a devastating diagnosis to glorify God and help his school. One week before starting fourth grade, Liam was diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare type of soft tissue cancer....
Principles for dealing with sins against your kids “Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.” (Proverbs 19:11) While I was out shopping recently, I noticed a woman wearing a shirt stamped with the words “MAMA BEAR” in all caps....
Don't Forget God's Sovereignty How Great Literature Helps Us Understand Our World BY BILL STUTZMAN* Falsely accused and imprisoned, Boethius has lost everything and cannot understand why. While wallowing in the empty comforts of self-indulgent poetry (did someone say,...
Have questions about classical Christian education? Ask us here. Q: Why are seniors required to write and defend a thesis? A: "The senior thesis project proves that we are no longer just students, absorbing information from other people. We reach our own ...
His challenges to reading began early, with two eye muscle surgeries by age four and numerous months of doctor’s appointments, eye patching, and changing glasses prescriptions before he ever entered the doors of his classical school. Desiring to give our son a firm...
By David Goodwin In October, 2023, a social media user posted about her surprise after a random conversation revealed her husband thought of Rome several times every day. The post went viral. After women began asking men about Rome and posting similar results, the...
BY BILL STUTZMANWhen it comes to educational comparisons, even classical types might fall for the old fallacy of “chronological snobbery,” as C.S. Lewis called it.[1] In the classical world we readily accept that newer does not equal better, but we sometimes forget...
When Classical Education Meets the Trades In 1824, the world’s First municipal fire fighting service, the Edinburgh Fire Establishment, was created in Edinburgh, Scotland, by 24-year-old James Braidwood. A Builder with a Classical Education James Braidwood was born in...
I never thought I would end up in the middle of an F2 tornado – especially not in Knoxville, Tennessee. Every kid grows up with some irrational fear; mine happened to be storms. I hated strong winds when I was young because I was terrified a tornado would hit my home....
Atlanta, GA, June 17-21, 2024BY LILY SAVAGE A Reflection on the National Honor Choir Aristotle in his treatise, Politics, defines the purpose of music as “leisuring well.” By leisure, he means the finding of pleasure and happiness in contemplating what is good. A...
