If you have spent any time in classical education circles over the past few decades, you will have encountered Dorothy Sayers. Her essay, “The Lost Tools of Learning,” holds a canonical position in renewal of classical Christian education. Sayers directed us to look...
Originally published in Classis Volume XVII, No. 4 By Ty Fischer Recently, I was talking with a seasoned headmaster from another ACCS school. It was his second day of school—we had yet to start. He had to cut away from the conversation for a moment. When he came back...
Survey a number of parents on the most important aspect of a school, and the majority will say “community.” Community is a fashionable word. Everyone talks about building community, being in community, or doing life together. Because man is a political animal, this is...
First published in Classis Volume XVIII, No. 2 Jason Sells Much has been written in the classical Christian school movement about the Great Books, the use of original sources, and the importance of Latin and Greek, but where does mathematics fit in? A study of...
Originally published in Classis Volume XX, No. 3 By Joshua Pauling In 1954, French theologian, sociologist, and legal scholar Jacques Ellul published a massive tome entitled La Technique. Translated into English ten years later as The Technological Society,1 the book...
Originally published in Classis Volume XX, No. 2 By Matthew Allen John Amos Comenius has long been considered a forgotten hero of the Reformation era. Yet we, as classical Christian educators, have more to learn from Comenius than anyone else, for he is one of us....
Volume XXIII, No. 3 When I first heard the Common Core discussed in a news report, I had a schizophrenic reaction. Being an ardent advocate for the classical tradition of education, I responded positively to its captivating name. Classical educators love and support...
The Case for Classical Languages August 5, 2022 Written By: Tim Griffith, New Saint Andrews College Originally published in ClassisSpring 2024, Volume XXXI Issue 3This article was adapted from a presentation entitled “A Spicy Manifesto on Classical Languages” given...
Originally published in Classis Volume XXIII, No. 3 By Amber Burgin Latin is a subject that frequently makes parents cringe, students tremble, and principals desperate to find a teacher. So, when one starts talking about integrating Latin, people will often give me a...
Originally published in Classis,Volume XXXI, No. 2 The use of Fashions in thought is to distract the attention of men from their real dangers. We direct the fashionable outcry of each generation against those vices of which it is least in danger and fix its approval...