Classical Education News & Articles | December 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 is Not a Right-Wing Project
By James Hankins | First Things
The Western tradition is too valuable for it to become the foster child of one political party. It should be handed down, with all candor and suitable critical rigor, to future generations. The current tendency on the illiberal left to subject it to ignorant attacks and demonization is destructive of civilized values.
Can ‘Classical Education’ Help Parents Find The Schools They Want?
by Natalie Wexler | Forbes
A growing number of families are enrolling their children in schools that provide classical education. We need a way to identify schools that use a content-rich curriculum, but the “classical” label may be too slippery—and too co-opted by political conservatives—to provide it.
Cultivating Communities Through Great Leaders in Education
By Josh Herring and Paul Weinhold | American Habits
The deliberate cultivation of virtues, specifically the virtue of prudence, constitutes the best preparation for classical school leaders.
Families Find Education, Not Indoctrination at Classical Charter Schools
by Michael S. Rose | The Epoch Times
The misconception that charter schools are religiously oriented stems from our attempts to promote essential habits of mind and body.
These Classical Teaching Programs Meet a Growing Demand
by James Samuel | The College Fix
‘Existing masters programs in education [are] obviously inappropriate,’ classical educator said.
Squeezing Out Virtue and Beauty
by Lee Trapanier | The University Bookman
Instead of thinking of having more “hubs” or “incubators” as the future of American higher education, why not think of one where communities of content can emerge and lead our college campuses? Where virtue and beauty with all their particularities can exist alongside those disciplines that are universal in scope and standardized in knowledge?
Sam Bankman-Fried’s Folly Is A Tale As Old As Time, But He Doesn’t Read
by Winston Brady | The Federalist
SBF and his ilk are just the harvest after decades of planting pragmatic and relativistic seeds throughout American public schools.
Liberal Arts and the Future of the University
by Yael Hungerford | Law & Liberty
A republic will benefit when its citizens—and especially its leaders—have been formed by a genuinely liberal education.
Why I’m Increasingly Worried About Boys, Too
by Jonathan Haidt | American Institute for Boys and Men
Boys are in trouble. Many have withdrawn from the real world, where they could develop the skills needed to become competent, successful, and loving men.
Every Teacher a Spiritual Director
by Kyle R. Hughes | Beza Institute
While the world and contemporary literature on Christian education supply us with many ways of conceiving what it means to be a teacher, I would like to suggest one frequently overlooked paradigm for thinking about the role of the teacher in a classical Christian school: the teacher as spiritual director.
The Burden of the Humanities
by Wilfred M. McClay | The New Criterion
On grasping human things in human terms.
The Desecration of Man
by Carl R. Trueman | First Things
The problem is not merely that the world has become prosaic. It is also that man has lost his sense of his own significance.
The Bad Lesson of Good Grades
by Frederick Hess | Education Next
Why we can no longer trust the satisfaction that comes from straight As
Make Haste Slowly or Festina Lente
by Christopher Perrin | Renewing Classical Education
Why Slow Can Be Fast in Education