By Nick Hutchison | December 9, 2022 Nick Hutchison was a valued contributor to the National Symposium for Classical Education this past year, and we are very pleased to announce that he will be returning again in 2023. Registration for the 2023 Symposium is now open. For more information, and to register, visit www.classicaleducationsymposium.org. Flying... Read More »

By Robert Lee Frost | December 6, 2022 Others taunt me with having knelt at well-curbs Always wrong to the light, so never seeing Deeper down in the well than where the water Gives me back in a shining surface picture Me myself in the summer heaven godlike Looking out of a wreath of fern... Read More »

By Frederick Turner, Ph.D. | December 6, 2022 Of all the fine arts, poetry is the most difficult to teach. The popular conception of poetry itself, shaped as it was by the modernist rebellion against form, convention, and tradition, deserves much of the blame. Argument and narrative were cast out in favor of the striking... Read More »

By Carol Reynolds, Ph.D. | November 29, 2022 A lively discussion about the rightful ownership of art recently took place in a course I am teaching. We were considering masterworks of ancient sculpture that have been purchased and transported to unrelated locations: the Pergamon Altar of the 2nd century BC, brought in the 19th century... Read More »

By Andrew J. Zwerneman | November 29, 2022 A culture consists of all those activities and artifacts which are organized by the “common pursuit of true judgment” as T.S. Eliot once put it. And true judgment involves the search for meaning through the reflective encounter with things made, composed, and written. Knowing what to do... Read More »