If you want to see an educational revolution, visit Phoenix, Arizona.
I just got back from a trip to Phoenix to attend a conference put on by the Great Hearts charter schools. Great Hearts is a system of sixteen classical charter schools in Arizona, which is now beginning to open schools in Texas as well, and, eventually, several other states.
While the public school establishment is shifting
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The following article will appear in the upcoming spring issue of The Classical Teacher, of which I am editor:
In Leo Tolstoy’s great Christian novel Anna Karenina, an after-dinner conversation turns to the subject of which European civilization is more developed—the English, the French, or the German. Karenin, Anna’s husband, argues that that civilization is most influential which is the
The newest thing in education, circa 1930s rural Alabama.
In Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, a largely autobiographical account of her own childhood in small town Alabama in the early 20th century, she writes about going to school at about the time the the so-called "progressive education" had reached the rural south.
Scout is upbraided in class by her teacher when she discovers that
An interesting article in Forbes magazine about homeschooling. Turns out that many parents are teaching their kids reading, writing, arithmetic, how to be good, and how to think.
The question is, of course, how are they going to survive in tomorrow's world without the necessary indoctrination in diversity and training in job skills that may or may not be relevant to what is actually needed in
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