We live in a culture that has forgotten how to read. Oh, we can say the words, and we know their dictionary meanings, but we have forgotten how to “get out of ourselves” and into a text. We have forgotten that the end is discovery – a discovery of convincing truth. Instead we read from...Read More

For a thousand years, this school, the Academy, was the center of higher philosophical learning in the classical world. And its legacy has endured ever since as an ideal and an aspiration, as the very name of our school attests.Read More

A classical Christian education should honor the authority inherent in education by teaching self-rule (after all, it’s been said that free people rule themselves). Self-rule, of course, does not come naturally but is learned, and learned first through the loving discipline and authority of parents and family, something Hans Christian Andersen seems to have given...Read More