Classical Education News & Articles | October 2023
In addition to reviewing books, ClassicalEd Review provides our readers with a monthly compendium of recent articles and news stories related to classical education and the liberal arts.
Classical Education’s Remedy for America’s Loneliness Epidemic
by Rachel Alexander Cambre
Classical schools embrace an older understanding of education, one that prepares students for festivity and friendship, rather than socially handicapping them.
No Classical School Nearby? No Problem.
By Mark Bauerlein
The Oxrose Academy is an online institution that opened in 2011.
By Abandoning Civics, Colleges Helped Create the Culture Wars
By Debra Satz and Dan Edelstein
Free speech is once again a flashpoint on college campuses.
Schools Should Not Be Factories
by Tamara Mann Tweel
An educational system must have a soul. Children are not computers to be fed a mass of informational data, without regard for their human needs for higher goals and ideals in life.
What are the liberal arts? A literature scholar explains
by Blaine Greteman
The term “liberal arts” is one of the most misunderstood terms in the public discourse on higher education today.
Virtual-Reality School Is the Next Frontier of the School-Choice Movement
by Emma Green
OptimaEd bills its education as classical, with an emphasis on the intellectual traditions of Western civilization and the liberal arts.
The Poetic Mode of Knowing
by Patrick Whalen
The retreat afforded by monastery walls has for hundreds of years made them ideal sites for learning and the preservation of knowledge.
Liberating Arts vs. Dumb Beasts
by Jessica Hooten Wilson
Aslan's warning in The Last Battle
Piling It On: Why Classical Schools Have Too Many Periods and Teach Too Many Subjects
by Christopher Perrin
Too much of a good thing.
Timeless and timely: a defense of the Great Books
by J. Walter Sterling
At St. John’s College, Santa Fe and Annapolis, probably the best-known pure Great Books college (also, notably, not religious despite the name), we believe not just that you can pursue education this way, but that it is one of the very best ways to achieve all the most important aims of a college education.
Classical Education's Aristocracy of Anyone
by Micah Meadowcroft
Even if we couldn't properly speak her tongue, Rome was alive enough to us; we had read all about her, because we were students at Cedar Tree Classical Christian School.
Education Toward Sanity
by Dan Loesing
Study Everything. Do Anything.” So reads a T-shirt I got from Notre Dame’s arts and humanities college, my alma mater.
The Pantheon of Ancient Wisdom
by Paul Krause
“The twenty-first century seems to threaten civilizational collapse at every turn,” writes Spencer Klavan in his new book, How to Save the West.
Are the Liberal Arts Elitist?
by Jeffrey Polet
If our liberal arts colleges are to survive, they should try to instill an appreciation for rather than attempt the destruction of our cultural heritage.
The school these parents wanted didn’t exist, so with school choice, they created it
by Ron Matus
Florida is a hotbed for classical education. It’s home to at least 15 classical charter schools and dozens of classical private schools, including many that are classical Christian schools. Those now include several rooted in the Catholic tradition.
Stop Sanitizing Education: ‘If It’s Not Offensive to Anyone, It’s Probably Not Important Either’
by Lucy Gilbert
The American education system used to be the envy of the world, and we need to return to the tried and true ways of traditional classical education, according to the founder of a standardized test for classical education that’s an alternative to the College Board’s SAT.
Keeping the republic and our virtues
by Winston Brady
A republic may be a nation of laws, but the people need no laws telling them how to serve the common good.
The Lesson Is Clear: Regulation Makes Charter Schools Less Innovative
by Corey DeAngelis and Jay P. Greene
We examined the websites of 1,261 charter schools that opened at the same time that NACSA issued its ratings, to see how they varied along five dimensions.