Why This Book Now
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 »
Leisure in the School Day and Academic Calendar
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 »
The Lessons in Our Stories
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 »
Tradition and Community
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 »
Virtue in Motion
By Matthew Bianco, Ph.D. | May 16, 2023 Anyone who has read Plato’s Meno knows that the question of whether virtue can be taught is an ancient one. In the world of classical education, it is a question we attempt to answer. Even if we assume, at our most optimistic, that we know both what... Read More »