Author Archives: Joshua Gibbs

The Light Phone 9 is just going to be an iPhone 4.

In a few weeks, I’ll wrap up the fifth year of Gibbs Classical. To celebrate the end of our fifth year, the entire Gibbs Classical library is now available to purchase. The following courses can be purchased here: Each class is fourteen sessions long and each session is one-hour. All of these classes can beContinue reading “Old Gibbs Classical Courses Are Now Available For Purchase”

At Fort Point, where Kim Novak throws herself into the Bay. And at the Legion of Honor, where Carlotta’s portrait hangs.

The best version of a thing will not be the most marketable version of that thing. For this reason, there’s no one in classical education who objects to improvements in quality quite like the people selling it.

“Great leaders are great listeners. Great leaders take feedback.” This might be true, but the sort of leader who posts this sentiment on LinkedIn is not a great leader and is only interested in pleasant, positive, encouraging, tone-sensitive, demure, flattering feedback. I know this because I checked.

I used to obsess over taking perfect pictures for Facebook.

A school has material needs and it has spiritual needs, and “admin brain” is what happens when the two aren’t rightly divided.  Let me explain.  Administrators are chiefly responsible for the material operation of a school. They must ensure that payroll is met. They must ensure that an adult is present wherever large groups ofContinue reading “Classical Christian Education Has A Box-Checking Problem”

There are schools with sucky teacher appreciation weeks, sucky compensation packages for teachers, sucky assemblies, sucky house programs, and sucky faculty development programs that only exist because of accreditation requirements–where students will still get a sermon from the principal that goes, “I feel like you’re only interested in doing the bare minimum here. You checkedContinue reading “Classical Christian Irony”

Every time I go to a wine bar, I hope they’re playing something like this.