Veritas et Virtus

The Official Blog of Columbus Classical Academy

Wed 4/10/2024 8:07 AM 112 years ago today, April 10, 1912, the RMS Titanic embarked on her maiden voyage.  Four days later, she hit an iceberg and sank.  There were not enough lifeboats on board to save everyone, and so Second Officer...

Welcome back.  I trust you all had a wonderful break.  If you’re having trouble seeing me, it probably means you looked at the sun yesterday without the proper eyewear.  Nonetheless, I’m glad you’re back. Over the course of the year,...

Ever before us are the young people who will become adults. We dare not rush these little ones; each step in their classical education builds to the next – each moment is important to relish and enjoy. The classical scope...

Sometimes just sharing the better words of better writers is the very best we can do.  So, Happy Easter to all: “They took the body down from the cross and one of the few rich men among the first Christians...

Wed 3/27/2024 8:25 AM Tom Holland, the author of a recent book titled “Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Changed the World,” who himself is not a Christian, writes this: “A myth, though, is not a lie. At its most profound—as...

A few days before he was crucified on the cross, Jesus entered Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover riding on a donkey.  Have you ever thought of what it was like to be the donkey?  Probably not—I never have. But G.K....

This week is Holy Week for Christians around the world.  It began yesterday on Palm Sunday and will conclude on Easter, or Resurrection Sunday, this weekend.  In her poem Good Friday, which is the day on which Jesus was crucified, Christina...

In 1862, under the heavy burden of leading a divided nation through the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln, gathered his cabinet to discuss his draft of the Emancipation Proclamation—the executive order that would make 3.5 million American slaves free people. ...

Wed 3/20/2024 8:09 AM Friedrich Nietzsche once said, “Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.” Of course, it is a laughable suggestion that man invented laughter; but Nietzsche’s...

Wed 3/20/2024 7:10 AM Victor Hugo once said: “Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.”  Well, today is the first day of spring.  So, this week, I’m going to see if I can make you laugh...

Welcome to Veritas et Virtus, the official blog of Columbus Classical Academy. Here we will share news and reflections on classical education.

Welcome to Veritas et Virtus, the official blog of Columbus Classical Academy. Here we will share news and reflections on classical education.

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