Weekly Readings

2024-25 Academic Year

Quarter 1

Week 9 – “Technopoly,” by Neil Postman

Week 8 – “The Claims of Memory,” by Wilfred M. McClay

Week 7 – “How Nietzsche Conquered America,” by Allan Bloom

Week 6 – “The Great Forgetting,” by R. R. Reno

Week 5 – “Teaching Students to Feel Pleasure and Pain at the Wrong Thing: The History of Grades and Grading,” by Brian A. Williams

Week 4 – “What’s So Great About Teachers?,” by Louise Cowan

Week 3 – “Democratic Education,” by C. S. Lewis

Week 2 – Hillsdale Classical Education Townhall

Week 1 – “The Principles of Classical Education,” by David Diener

Quarter 2

Week 16 – “The Death of Words,” by C.S. Lewis

Week 15 – Thanksgiving editorial from the Wall Street Journal

Week 14 – Why Liberal Education in a Capitalist Society? by Christopher Nelson

Week 13 – Of Weeds & Fairy Tales: The Idylls, Idols, & Devils That Corrupt the Moral Imagination

Week 12 – “To Be Unfit for the Modern World,” by Richard Gamble

Week 11 – “Why I Was Wrong About Liberal-Arts Majors,” by David Kalt

Week 10 – “Why I Teach Plato to Plumbers,” by Scott Samuelson

Quarter 3

Coming Soon

Quarter 4

Coming Soon

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