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Classically Practical
michael lynch
Early modern classical education was neither simply aimed at personal virtue formation nor career training, but both.
Towards a More American Classical Education
Nathan Gill
Classical schools would do well to learn from this part of our tradition and use aesthetics, liturgy and curricula to boldly shape students whose devotion to their national family is exceeded only by their devotion to their faith.
“eDUCATION A dIVINE tHING”: gEORGE wASHINGTON dOANE AND THE DIVINE FOUNDATIONS OF EDUCATION, 1854
MILES SMITH
In 1854, George Washington Doane, Episcopal bishop of New Jersey, addressed the students, faculty, and friends of Burlington College, adjacent to the Episcopal parish church in Burlington, New Jersey.
Whose Classical Education? which canon?
lue-Yee Tsang
For something to be considered classical, it must be classical within the context of a particular civilization, and for a particular culture within that civilization.
MAINTAINING A CANON IN WOKE TIMES
SCOTT YENOR
A classical Christian education seeks to ask what the good is, and then to build a civilization on the answer that reflects these great questions of human destiny.
A More Sex-Sensitive Classical Christian Education
SCOTT YENOR
In a Christian culture, boys and girls should have different attitudes toward leadership and imagine somewhat different destinies when it comes to family life and the ministry, for example.
the ends of “mere classical” schools
clifford humphrey
Perhaps it is time to consider that a “mere classical” identity is insufficient for crafting intentional communities of learning in K-12 schools.
TOWARD A CLASSICAL COUNTER-ELITE
matthew freeman
Hero-worship is made by the Greek and Roman classics, because hero-worship is itself the blood coursing through them, giving them life in antiquity and today: the hero who slays the dragon and acquires undying fame.
classical education’s woke co-morbidity
matthew freeman
Understanding virtue is essential for understanding the classical tradition because the unalterable lesson the tradition teaches is hero-worship.
Reforming Classical Education
Edited by Rhys Laverty and Mark Hamilton
We are now in the third generation of the great educational awakening often called the “classical Christian education movement.” As with all successful movements, rival visions for its future direction have emerged, and fundamental questions beg for answers.
Teach latin—For the common good
Michael lynch
We are now in the third generation of the great educational awakening often called the “classical Christian education movement.” As with all successful movements, rival visions for its future direction have emerged, and fundamental questions beg for answers.
Classical Schools in Modern America
Ian Lindquist
The classical-education movement is one demonstration that the revival of American society will come not from turning away from time-honored American forms of associations, but rather from embracing them, and making the most of them.
classica americana: The greek and Roman heritage in the United States
Reinhold Meyer
A comprehensive study of the American classical heritage.