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Sandra Day O’Connor Civics Celebration Day is observed annually in Arizona on September 25 to honor the historic legacy of the first female U.S. Supreme Court Justice and prominent Arizonan Sandra Day O’Connor. With the support of the Jack Miller Center, keynote speakers were deployed from Arizona State University’s School of Civic and Economic Thought at four... Read More »

Preparations are underway for the 2027 Great Hearts National Symposium for Classical Education, taking place February 24–26 at the Tempe Mission Palms Hotel in Tempe, Ariz. The annual “big tent” event for classical education is hosted by the Great Hearts Institute and welcomes educators, scholars, and leaders from across the country. But in the meantime, we... Read More »

On September 16th, 2025, Great Hearts Institute launched ON Classical Education on the Substack platform with the simple goal of creating a place for serious conversation about classical education, its purposes, its practices, its inheritance, and its future. And now, 12 months later, that conversation is still growing. Great Hearts Institute is the think tank of Great Hearts... Read More »

  This essay is a form of a presentation Christopher Perrin prepared for the Great Hearts National Symposium for Classical Education on Feb. 25, 2026. It reads like a speech…he will be updating this essay (with footnotes and additional content) in the weeks to come, so some of you might want to revisit it when... Read More »

The 2026 Great Hearts National Symposium for Classical Education has come to an end with the close of the third and final day of this “big tent” event hosted by the Great Hearts Institute. Attendance exceeded 900 educators and leaders in the field, making this a record-breaking year. The day began with keynote speaker, Susan McWilliams... Read More »