I meant to include The Liberating Arts: Why We Need Liberal Arts Education in yesterday’s list but as I was reorganizing my stacks, I set it in a wrong pile and missed it. So, I decided to give it it’s own post—along with a brief review (sort of). When Jesse Jackson marched with a large […]
Top 10 Books About The Liberal Arts in Classical Christian Education
This is the third post in my series on the 50 most important books on Classical Christian Education. I have tried to order my lists with some measure of thoughtfulness as it pertains to stages of need and interest. The first post in the series was a list of primers (five in all) that are […]
Ten More Books For Families And Teachers New To Classical Christian Education
In my first post in this series, I shared five books I believe are thorough and accessible enough to help anyone unfamiliar with Classical Christian Education navigate the landscape fairly successfully. Building on the first five, here are the next 10 books I would recommend reading if you are interested in expanding your understanding of […]
My Top Five Books for Families and Teachers New to Classical Christian Education
The number of people (teachers and parents) migrating to Classical Christian Education (CCE) is astounding—and joyfully so! Talking recently with a colleague, he pointed out how the crowds at homeschooling conferences are drastically different than the families who attended the conferences before COVID. What he was observing was a new wave of families who have […]
Trigger Warning: The Post You are About To Read Contains Viewpoints That May Create Emotional Discomfort for Cult Practitioners of Safetyism
In this post, I’m going to get right to the point. We’ve all seen those articles, videos, and other media that begin with a trigger warning similar to the one in the title of this post. Perhaps you just assumed some well-meaning do-gooders at the executive level thought it would be helpful to warn their […]
A Primer for Becoming a Lifelong Learner
The Great Conversation is a spirit of inquiry applied to the Great Books—the best that has been thought and written in the Western tradition.
Book Review: Uprooted by Grace Olmstead
Uprooted, is foremost a memoir about homesickness…a deep and personal exploration of that “ache for presences past, for the souls that animated and embodied our most beloved memories of homes.
The Three R’s: The Essentials of an Educated Person
I want to use whatever good I learned as a boy— I can speak and write, read and count—and I want these things to be used to serve you. – St. Augustine of Hippo
To Whom Will We Pay Our Respects?
The struggle for who controls the educational worldview of the next generation is at the heart of the culture war in every generation. For example, in the early twentieth century, Adolf Hitler notably focused on the education of the German youth in his attempt to create the Aryan man who would populate and propagate his […]
J. R. R. Tolkien’s First Car
In a previous post, I noted that Tolkien had a particularly adversarial disposition toward Machines. In his book, J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography, Humphrey Carpenter recounts a humorous anecdote about J. R. R. Tolkien’s personal relationship with one kind of Machine, the automobile.