INSIDE A CLASSICAL CLASSROOM
A Brief History of Education: American and Classical
Classical Christian Era At the time this nation was formed, our population stood at around 3 million. And we produced out of that 3 million people perhaps six leaders of world class -- Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, and Hamilton. Today, our...
Transcendent: The Not-So-Obvious Idea About God
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...
Classical School Wins National Mock Trial Title
Agathos Classical School, a small classical school just outside of Nashville, took home the national mock trial title last week only four years after starting the program. An outstanding cumulation of hard work and incredible talent, Agathos' victory is the highest of...
Christian Children, Christian Schools?
"...What are we to make of a student who has spent 15 to 20 years studying academics without ever considering God’s relationship to these fields of knowledge? Does this kind of education not actually imply that God is not the source of all knowledge and truth?" A...
More on the CLT
Author, speaker, and radio host Eric Metaxas discusses classical Christian education and the CLT on his radio show. The televised interview encourages classical Christian education, as well as the test. Send it on if you find it helpful. Click here to watch...
CLT: An Emerging Option for College Admissions Testing
In light of this year's college admissions scandal, universities, high schools, and parents alike are taking a fresh look at college admissions requirements. The CLT (Classic Learning Test) provides a new admissions-testing alternative, cultivating truth, beauty, and...
Art: For Whose Sake?
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. —MICHAELANGELO Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is. —JACKSON POLLOCK T he bearded man up front was a “guest artist” so all undergrad art students had to attend his presentation....
Building Intellectual Immune Systems
"Schools are teaching young people how not to be offensive...but they also need to be teaching a new generation how not to be offended.” One glance at the average Facebook feed confirms the growing epidemic of irrational public discourse. The widespread implementation...
Lean Out or Lean In: Liberal Arts as a Path to Leadership
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...
Good Employee
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...
Today We Finished Reading “Charlotte’s Web”
by Faith Silvertooth Christian Heritage Classical School, Longview, TX Today, we finished reading Charlotte’s Web. It was very emotional for us. As I was reading the chapter in which Charlotte dies, I noticed one of my students gasp. I looked up to realize she figured...
Art is long. Life is eternal.
by Alane Holm Ars longa; vita brevis. "Art is long, life is brief." This phrase is attributed to the fourth century Roman statesman, Seneca, but it is believed to have originated first with Hippocrates, who spoke to this human dilemma in the opening pages of his...
7 Warnings to Classical Christian Schools
By Douglas Wilson Read More With usual gusto, Douglas Wilson provides us with the 7 pitfalls Classical Christian schools face. School communities must be ever vigilant of these trends in their own schools. "But neither should a school climb up high on their dignity as...
How Classical Education Teaches Humility
Socratics and Humility And the chief goals of classical Christian education are to instill virtue and a love for God and His Word. But how does one practically instill these intangibles? Classical education employs a method called "socratic seminar" to develop an...
Why Study Latin?
Classical Christian education boasts a seemingly odd canon of subjects and skills when compared to that practiced in modern elementary and high schools, not the least of which is the study of Latin. Parents and students often ask, "Why Latin?" The study of Latin...
Dorothy Sayers Is the Answer to John Dewey
By Jesse SumpterRead more at The Imaginative Conservative: https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2018/09/dorothy-sayers-is-answer-john-dewey-jesse-sumpter.htmlJesse Sumpter, a graduate of New Saint Andrews College and teacher of classical Christian...
Tough Choices When Making Decisions for College?
By Christa Case BryantRead more at The Christian Science Monitor: https://www.csmonitor.com/EqualEd/2018/0423/At-college-decision-time-conservatives-face-tough-choices An ACCS Member school, The St. Constantine School in Houston, Texas, is making waves in...
10 Differences Between Conventional Christian Schools and Classical Christian Schools
Winter 2018 HEAD to HEAD10 DIFFERENCES BETWEEN “CONVENTIONAL CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS” AND “CLASSICAL CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS” WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE between your school and the Christian school down the street? Classical Christian education (CCE) follows the classical model—the...
