Money, Politics, and the Future of America
That may seem like an odd title for a note in a classical school newsletter. After all, isn’t classical education concerned with the eternal over the temporal, the lessons of human history more than the political demands of the present? What do modern elections and national interests have to do with teaching children virtue—the Good, […]
Latin, the Language of the Great Conversation
The Roman philosopher Boethius once wrote, “To understand the lofty Thunderer’s laws with true insight and objectivity, lift your eyes to the highest rooftop of the heavens.” But of course, he wrote it in Latin, not English. His work, On the Consolation of Philosophy, was written in 523 A.D., while he was imprisoned and awaiting execution […]
