Odysseus and Penelope, Romeo and Juliet, Mark Antony and Cleopatra. All classical power couples who stood the test of time individually but made their mark on history as pairs. In this same vein, we are thrilled to announce two husband-and-wife teams that are part of our great lineup of impactful speakers at the National Symposium for Classical Education. One... Read More »

By David J. Rothman, Ph.D. and Susan Spear, Ph.D. | July 26, 2023 Poetry handbooks and textbooks have a long and distinguished history. In our new textbook, Learning the Secrets of English Verse, we append a 200-item bibliography of the genre, along with a critical essay. While we don’t reach as far back as St.... Read More »

By Brandon Crowe | July 26, 2023 About a decade ago, I did something remarkable – at least it seemed remarkable at the time: I threw out my calendar. It was not frenzy or anti-structural zeal that drove me to the recycle bin; I finally made the plunge to an exclusively electronic calendar. This was... Read More »

By Jim Weiss | July 26, 2023 One reason that my wife and I so enjoy the annual Great Hearts National Symposium for Classical Education is the chance to interact with people who not only find facts fascinating, but who recognize those facts as stepping stones to something even greater: wisdom. This is also a... Read More »

By Dhananjay Jagganathan, Ph.D. | July 19, 2023 I teach in one of the oldest ‘Great Books’ university programs in the United States. We still require all our incoming students to take the same sequence of intensive courses, in small sections, using roughly the same syllabus, and centered on the Western intellectual tradition. Because my... Read More »