One of the first things I noticed some thirteen years ago upon beginning to teach in schools branded with the phrase “Classical Christian” was a very large disconnect between the promotional talk put forward and the substance conveyed in the classrooms. My own story will, perhaps, be only distracting, so I have relegated it to a separate post which you may safely ignore should you only be interested in reading about ongoing work to reform classical Christian education. Below you will find links to some of the most provocative materials, pro and con, that I have read on the subject.
Posts by Tim Enloe
- “Sixty Centuries Are Looking Down On Us”
- Is Western Culture Worse than Sodom and Nineveh?
- Classical Education and Optimism
- That Silly Old Gilgamesh
Posts by Various Authors
- A Classical Christian School Two Centuries Ago (Ian Mosley)
- Classical Schools Are Not Really Classical (Jonathan Roberts)
- Why A Classical Education is Almost Impossible Today (Shawn Barnett)
- Classical Education is More Possible Than Ever (David Goodwin)
- No, A Classical Education is Not Impossible to Revive In America’s Degenerate Society (Josh Herring)
- The Blind Guides of the Classical Education Movement (Shawn Barnett)
- How to Escape the Hyperclassical Trap (Jonathan Gregg)
- Piling It On: Why Classical Schools Have Too Many Periods and Teach Too Many Subjects (Christopher Perrin)
- Are Classical Educators Proud and Elitist? (Christopher Perrin)
- Why Classical Schools Fragment Education and Turn Learning Into Subjects (Christopher Perrin)
Posts by Joshua Gibbs