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Why has The Odyssey endured for nearly 3,000 years?
Because great books ask timeless questions about courage, duty, family, and what it means to live well.
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Is classical education becoming too disembodied? The article argues we've over-emphasized the liberal arts at the expense of manual training. True virtue is cultivated through hands-on work with real materials, not just abstract thought.
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The Federalist Papers are more than political essays—they are exercises in serious civic reasoning.
Hamilton, Madison, and Jay believed citizens could be persuaded through careful argument and reflection. 📖
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Civilizations are renewed when people choose to preserve and pass on what is good.
“Repairing the Ruins” reflects on education, formation, and the quiet work of cultural renewal. 📚✨
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✍️ In an age of screens and keyboards, handwriting is far from obsolete. This article argues that the physical act of writing by hand engages multiple senses, strengthens memory, and unlocks higher-level thinking.
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Only mission sustains a college.
A reflection on why clarity of purpose matters more than branding in higher education.
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Memorization isn’t mere repetition—it’s formation.
When students carry great words within them, those words begin to shape how they think and speak. 📖✨
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If we lose sight of what it means to be human, we lose sight of what education is for.
A renewed humanism invites us back to purpose, dignity, and truth. 📖✨
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Classical education invites students into a way of learning that shapes how they think, speak, and engage the world. Through grammar, logic, and rhetoric, students are formed not just to know, but to understand—and to pursue what is true, good, and beautiful.
Classical education isn’t about going backward—it’s about recovering how to think well.
Grammar, logic, and rhetoric form students who can speak clearly, reason carefully, and pursue truth. 📖✨
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🎶 “Poetry should be a public art.”
More than 30 years ago, Dana Gioia urged us to “mix poetry with the other arts—especially music.” Now, composer Eric Whitacre is doing just that with Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.”
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Theologian, medievalist, musician, and storyteller Junius Johnson joins us to share how Lewis and the medievals shaped his vocation—and why recovering this vision matters for classical education now.
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