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“Every year, classical Christian schools open by the dozen. Many start with fewer than forty students, but it is not unusual to see a classical school go from forty students to one hundred in less than a decade, and that decade goes fast. Despite how common such growth is, many schools are not founded onContinue reading “Starting A Classical School? Here’s Five Things You Have To Get Right The First Time”

Registration is still open for Wisdom Literature for Beginners, the Spring class I am offering through Gibbs Classical. The reading schedule is very light and the lectures will be dense and focused. Here is our schedule: January 13: The Consolation of Philosophy (Book 1)  January 20: Ecclesiastes, Chapter 1 January 27: Consolation (Book 1), EcclesiastesContinue reading “Wisdom Literature for Beginners Starts This Friday”

“Imagine a league of eight or ten classical Christian schools forming in the future over a shared frustration that the “classical Christian” designation had come to mean so little. Suppose membership in this league were based on obedience to a number of cultural credos, like no smart phones or social media among students (or maybeContinue reading “How To Keep Classical Christian Education From Falling Apart”

New Year’s Eve, on the other hand, was originally a pagan holiday. And still is, sort of.

“A Plato and Augustine school which bans smart phones, social media, and has no sports program really doesn’t have much in common with a Plato and Augustine school that allows all three.” -from a forthcoming barn burner for CiRCE

This isn’t the sort of thing you’re excited to watch at the outset, but give it ten minutes or so and you’ll be hooked.

Couple things. The Gospel story of Christ’s birth is what the story of Exodus was always pointing to. The story of Exodus is about God delivering an enslaved people from a tyrant and rescuing His bride. Die Hard is the story of a man, John McClane, who delivers people held hostage by the tyrant HansContinue reading “Yes, Virginia, “Die Hard” Is A Christmas Movie”

“I can’t help but feeling the Harry Potter series was meant for the best students, that it was confirmation all the curious little things they’d noticed about school were actually curious, and all their suspicions that something more was going on at school than met the eye were wholly justified.”  -from my latest for CiRCE

““Everything that interrupts a tradition obliges us to start over.And every origin is bloody.” ― Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“Artificial intelligence” seems much, much less impressive when you call it “fake intelligence,” even though that’s exactly what it is. I guess we could call it “vegan intelligence,” too.