The Road Not Taken in American Education
By Robert L. Jackson, Ph.D. | August 26, 2022 I was heartened to read Jenna and Ben Storey’s recent piece in the New York Times(reprinted at AEI’s site), which distinguishes two incommensurable roads for higher education: college as a pathway to ever-increasing economic opportunities on the one hand, and college as a community of genuine discernment,... Read More »
Learning to Love the Beautiful: Telos, Faerie, and the Moral Imagination
By Jesse Hake | August 16, 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. Human formation involves training ourselves with regard to what we love: both... Read More »
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 »