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Are Classical Languages Necessary to a Classical School?

Leave a Comment / Article / By Austin Hoffman

Classical education seeks to return to the old paths of wisdom and finds nourishment from those excellencies and virtues which our predecessors judged worthy of preserving. It is not concerned with the transient or ephemeral, but sends its roots into deeper soil. Thus, classical schools devote much time to the reading of old books as […]

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Why Poetry Cannot Be Translated

Leave a Comment / Article / By Austin Hoffman

The classical renewal places great emphasis on the trivium and on language. In contrast to modern progressive education which only “has a mind of metal and wheels,” classical education restores the primacy of the word over the gadget. Rather than the know-how of mechanical manipulation, a language-based education ascends to the transcendentals of truth, goodness,

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The Agon is Real

Leave a Comment / Article / By Joshua Leland

On the struggle for the best things in life

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