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Classis: The Journal of Classical Christian Education
Dr. Louise Cowan: a True Teacher

Dr. Louise Cowan: a True Teacher

Originally published in Classis 2011 Volume XVIII, No. 1 By Ben House Only twelve percent of adult Americans read poetry, according to a recent statistic.1 Several of my students, my eleven-year-old son, and I fit into an even smaller minority: the number of Americans...

How ‘Bout Them Apples

How ‘Bout Them Apples

Originally published in Classis Volume XVI, no. 3 By Eric Indgjerd In an address titled, “The Greatest Single Defect of My Own Latin Education,” Dorothy Sayers confessed the lamentable fact that, although she had started upon Latin at the ripe young age of seven—her...

Culture and Curriculum

Culture and Curriculum

Originally published in Classis Volume XV, no. 3 By Bryan Lynch In Marshall McLuhan's famous phrase, 'the medium is the message'. That is, the way an idea is presented or delivered may often communicate more powerfully than the content of the message itself. Following...

Rhetoric: What’s It Good For? Absolutely Everything!

Rhetoric: What’s It Good For? Absolutely Everything!

Originally published in Classis Volume XV, no. 1 By Corrina McKenna When one works at a tree farm in Georgia, work has a way of following one home at night. On days we took cuttings to propagate new trees, I would close my eyes after hours of clipping and snipping and...

Getting Beyond the Lord of the Rings

Getting Beyond the Lord of the Rings

Published in Classical Teacher, Spring 2007 Reprinted in Classis, Volume XIV, no. 5 by Martin Cothran We all know them. They fight imaginary sword battles. They draw pictures of orcs and dwarves. Sometimes they even try to learn the elvish language. They seem, in...

Plagues and Classical Literature

Plagues and Classical Literature

Originally published in Classis, Volume XXVII, No. 3 By William Isley During this coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown, it occurred to me to read a few of the descriptions of plagues in some classic texts of Western civilization. In times like these, which are...