Women in the Tradition
By Joelle Hodge | August 8, 2022 The Institute is honored to have Classical Academic Press as a partner in serving the classical movement. CAP’s award-winning classical curricula provide rich and rigorous history, science, and languages suited to the well-rounded study of the liberal arts. “. . . a little bell makes a great sound,... Read More »
The Teacher as Muse
By Christopher Perrin, PhD | August 1, 2022 The Institute is honored to have Classical Academic Press as a partner in serving the classical movement. CAP’s award-winning classical curricula provide rich and rigorous history, science, and languages suited to the well-rounded study of the liberal arts. To a student in third grade, her teacher naturally... Read More »
On Beauty in Textbooks
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 »
Quintilian and the Ideal Orator
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 »
Great-Hearted Teachers: Darrah Johnson
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 »