CONTINUING IN THE WORD
Perspectives on Homeschooling and Classical Christian Education from Scholars Online
Category: Writing
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“These students nowadays…”
The November 2024 issue of The Atlantic contains an article (“The Elite College Students who Can’t Read Books”) that has been raising eyebrows and ire since. In it, Rose Horowitch notes that academics at some prestigious universities have concluded that few incoming freshmen are ready for extended reading, many admitting that they have never been required to…
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Summertime, and the Learning is Easy
The traditional school year in the United States and much of the rest of the world has been faulted for inefficiency: surely we could get more learning done, or do the same amount in less time, by simply continuing throughout the year, and not taking the summer off for what the English call the “long…
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November 23: Areopagitica, or Free Speech
In 1644, on November 23, in the midst of England’s Civil War, John Milton published a pamphlet entitled “Areopagitica”. It is a defense of freedom of speech, and an eloquent argument for the fundamental role of civil discourse and rational analysis in classical education. The title is a reference to the Areopagus Hill, where Athens…