Will classical Christian schools in China look the same as those in America? Should they? Is Chinese culture compatible with Christianity? What does classical and liberal art education really mean? What is the Dao and why did C.S. Lewis like to talk about it? We dive into these questions and more with Brent Pinkall in…
We know the college scene these days is not healthy, and it’s also ridiculously expensive. Yet it’s the default path we tend to set for our high school graduates. The boys, we think, need to go to university in order to get careers so they can provide for a family. Should our girls also get…
Growing up, we all call melodious sounds hitting our ears ‘music.’ Music, we later learn, is one piece of the quadrivium in classical education. We think we understand, until some explanations of music and classical education seem to make music about so much more than sound that the harmonious sound element is almost eclipsed. We…
We talk about the trivium, about a liberal arts education, about classical education, but often without being clear about what these terms mean. When we do have a definition, it is usually simplified. Sometimes, it’s not at all tethered to the actual historical usage or concept. In this episode, we talk to historian Dr. Schlect,…
