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October 2026

October 09, 2026

Why Classical Education Is a Conversation, Not a Curriculum

Come and Read: Joy in Classical Education When I was a little boy, Dad would...

September 2026

September 09, 2026

Rooted: Why Classical Education Needs Community

| Image courtesy of the author. Community Incarnates Classical Education I sometimes read from my...

September 02, 2026

Classical Education: Discussion for Everyone

The Discussion is for Everyone and Anyone I still miss Dr. Geier. I can close...

August 2026

August 25, 2026

Speaking Math: the Language of Classical Education

What Papaw Showed Me Papaw would take out his compass and show you how to...

August 15, 2026

Why Music Is the Heart of a Classical Education

The Music of the Spheres: Music Matters - A Personal Argument Music is classical education....

August 05, 2026

Classical Education and the Art of Dying Well

An Education for Paradise A Certainty Classical Education Cannot Ignore "Nobody is sure of much,"...

July 2026

July 24, 2026

An Education to Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before

Don't Educate Impractically Dad was very wise. He was talking to me once about education,...

July 22, 2026

The Classical Education That Marched Men to Their Deaths

An Education to Avoid Juggernaut Oxford and the colleges there, despite some more recent failures,...

July 20, 2026

Classical Education Needs to Level Up

The Level Up in the Education Called Classical Writer's Note: This is the first in...

July 01, 2024

History and Hidden Ethics and Philosophy

Beware hidden assumptions in histories. Too often one gets third rate philosophy the historian cannot...

June 2024

June 29, 2024

Dangerously Credentialed Minds

The Reality Deniers Communism in the Soviet Union was dying. The evidence was everywhere, but...

May 2022

May 02, 2022

Leaders Needed: Higher Education

We stand at educational Armageddon and hire consultants for the Board. This is the state...

April 2022

April 17, 2022

The Orthodox Moment: Education Kept in Safety for All Time

The City of God is kept in safety for all time: full of love, the...

June 2021

June 04, 2021

Why Fine Arts? (Guest Voice: Lauren Turner)

Where there is no music, there is no dialectic. Where there is no art, there...

June 03, 2021

Jesus and the Dialectic

Jesus was the master teacher, better at “Socratic dialogue” than Socrates. The Athenians began with...

May 2021

May 28, 2021

To Be Hardly Able to Hear, Yet Hearing

I thought the concert would be glorious, but the music was hard work. Let me...

May 27, 2021

Not Just Cake: Why Music Matters

Two principles regarding treats: A man can live without cake and cannot live on cake...

May 26, 2021

Singing in the Rain (Guest Voice: Lauren Turner)

Music matters. Music matters too much to leave to the professionals. This thought, more Plato...

May 09, 2021

Hearing (Also about Mom)

I try listening when I cannot see. "Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word...

May 07, 2021

Real Armor: a Problem with too much Virtual Reality

"Is that armor. . .real?" This is a question asked of my son Ian, a...

April 2021

April 21, 2021

The Moral Case Against Veganism (Guest Voice Laudeus Castra)

I publish all kinds of voices from nearly mad defenders of Heidegger to atheists who...

March 2021

March 25, 2021

200 Years of Modern Greatness: Happy Birthday to all of Hellas

Two hundred years ago brave men stood for liberty against a cruel empire. They could...

March 24, 2021

Hellas: With No Monument to Preserve Her Except that of the Heart

Rootless, lost, unattached, homeless: these feelings overwhelm those who forget the mothers and fathers that...

March 21, 2021

The Hectorate and the Beloved Community

The Hectorate, the league of hectors, is acid on the soul of the Church. These...

March 10, 2021

The Limits of Unaided Reason

Human reason, yes, but give us also the revelation of reason that comes from God....

February 2021

February 03, 2021

The Black Authors Who keep Teaching Me (A Collection of Reflections)

This month I am sharing my reading of Black American poets in the nineteenth century....

January 2021

January 30, 2021

Education and Truth in Advertising

Christian colleges should stop living by marketing lies. I learned the ugliness at a very...

January 09, 2021

The Bigger Man is not in Bronze

Small loves, in the right place, help us have great loves at the right time....

December 2020

December 17, 2020

Make Some Drama, Poetry, Music at Home

May we make some music, as we can, and so create our own beauty wherever...

December 05, 2020

Child Care: A Simple Thing Every Christian School and College Should Strive to Do

We need every different voice: men, women, the older, younger, all the family. If we isolate...