OUR WORK
CLASSICAL EDUCATION’S ARISTOCRACY OF ANYONE
MICAH MEADOWCROFT
The classical-education movement of the last four decades comes out of a peculiarly American combination of close-to-earth dwarfish realism and confident aspirations to gianthood.
the clt, classical ed, and the future of american education
Ben R. Crenshaw
My own view is that classical education need not be either aristocratic or global; it can be properly molded to teach the common man who is already a member or citizen of a particular land, religion, and constitution.
classical education & its discontents
colin chan redemer
Modern classical educators must develop the conviction to stand against modern educational trends, recover genuinely forgotten traditions of education, and begin advancing much more radical proposals.
Revisiting Platonic Education: The Ever SharEable Feast
colin chan redemer
Current “classical schools” mirror Conservatism Inc.’s nostalgia for the Great Books tradition of the 1950s, but this is neither Christian enough nor American enough.
MACHIAVELLI’S REVOLUTIONARY CLASSICAL EDUCATION
JOHN M. PETERSON
Machiavelli is part of the canon that would be resurrected by the classical education movement, but he is not, for them, a model; he is a byword, connected in some way to the foundation of the very regime which the classical education movement sees itself as resisting.
Review: Battle for the american mind
John M. Peterson
The idea that truth cannot be known without Christian revelation is fideism, which is antithetical to the classical tradition, and what’s more, to the Christian intellectual tradition.
Creeds and Credentials: On Education and the Future
colin chan redemer
We need to begin planning to preserve and transmit and grow what remains of humane knowledge for a future which we will not live to see.
review: teach like a champion 3.0
john M. Peterson
The promise of the work, and of modern education generally, is that inequality and scarcity in education can be overcome through the employment of the proper methods.
Education and the man according to john adams
pavlos papadopoulos
The classical historians wrote as citizens as well as scholars—citizens of this city rather than an abstract and deracinated “Republic of Letters” or, as we would put it today, as members of the “scientific community” or “scholarly community.”
Liberty and Liberal Education
Pavlos Papadopoulos
There is a tension between the civic and philosophic purposes of a liberal education, which derives from the tension between our political nature and our transpolitical destiny.
order beyond adler
Pavlos Papadopoulos
The Socratic quest to know thyself, and the universal quest to live well, today requires putting philosophic questions to contemporary mathematics and science and technology, as well as the philosophies that brought us to our present state.
The Specter of Humanism
Ryan Hammill
While religion will be ruined if made into the benzedrine of the city, the humanities—in their proper place—are just what the doctor ordered.
Physical education, Spiritual fortitude
Pavlos Papadopoulos
Flabby bodies and flabby souls are bad for the student and bad for the country.
CLASSICAL SCHOOLS AREN’T REALLY CLASSICAL
JONATHAN ROBERTS
Classical education advocates want to guard the treasures of Western civilization against an iconoclastic liberalism, but instead they wind up constructing a totally novel interpretation of the classical tradition and an instrumentalist view of language learning, revealing themselves to be just as “progressive” as their opponents.
RESTORE AUTHORITY TO EDUCATION
JOHN M. PETERSON
Our schools, at the undergraduate level but also at the K-12 level, lack authority in the first place because they have abandoned the canon, have perverted the liberal arts, neglected classical languages, and most importantly, have traded required curricula for the elective system.
THE DISENCHANTMENT OF MODERN MORAL SCIENCE
PAVLOS PAPADOPOULOS
Our elite universities are, by design, primarily dedicated to the training of specialists who will aid us in our collective conquest of nature for the relief of man’s estate.
college is too late
john M. peterson
Conservatives must give up the dream that the problem of the ideology of academia can somehow be resolved without teaching students how to think in the K-12 educational system that forms them first.
minerva has left the building
colin chan redemer
I rarely talk to a parent of a college-bound student who is excited for them to go off and study the liberal arts.
Rangers and Hobbits: Towards Liberal Arts for the Common Good
micah meadowcroft
As the Dúnedain kept the bounds of the Shire, preserving space for the singing of simple songs and the drinking of simple beers, so too ought those given the gift of the liberal arts, this great conversation ringing down through the ages of the West, preserve and protect that inheritance for their fellow citizens.
SOPHOMORE INCLINATIONS AND THE RESEARCH UNIVERSITY
PAVLOS PAPADOPOULOS
Wedded as it was to an emerging cultural, economic, and military powerhouse, the German model proved positively tantalizing to the American reformers who saw the old colleges, and the classical heritage and religious faiths to which they were wedded, as obstacles for the development of the United States into a modern, progressive nation.
why even non-christians lose from growing ignorance about the bible
colin chan redemer
If you want your kids to thrive in graduate school, send them to Bible study.
the soul of christian education
colin chan redemer
Conversations have shifted from focusing on the content of the reading lists, the ideas in the texts and the texts themselves, and towards a focus on “skills development” or “the method” used to discuss the texts.