By John D. Mays, Ph.D. | June 28, 2022 Classical educators know that the human mind and spirit need beauty. Classical schools are often willing to pay a premium to build facilities consistent with the literature and music studied in class. We readily understand that harmony of form contributes to harmony of mind, and this... Read More »

By Winston Brady | June 13, 2022 As a classical educator, I find it ironic that we do not have many texts on education from the classical period. We can make some inferences based on the dialogues of Plato or anecdotal evidence in the writings of Aristotle, but there are few extant, comprehensive texts on... Read More »

By Betsy Brown | March 31, 2022 In recent years, many Great Hearts graduates have started to return to the network to teach. In a new series of interviews, Betsy K. Brown asks these young educators to reflect on their experiences in the classroom and what brought them back. Darrah Johnson graduated from Trivium Preparatory... Read More »

By Tessa Carman | March 28, 2022 Exploring Charlotte Mason’s Third Principle of Education In this blog series, writer, teacher, and mother Tessa Carman explores the Twenty Principles of Charlotte Mason’s educational philosophy and their relevance in classical education. “The principles of Authority on the one hand and Docility on the other are natural, necessary... Read More »

By Mark Bauerlein, Ph.D. | February 2, 2022 In my poetry workshop at the National Symposium for Classical Education in March, we will be forthrightly old-fashioned, and we will devote much of our time to the merits of memorization. What happens when a student memorizes a poem? A lot more than what the common word... Read More »