Schools for Show Poodles

“Far from teaching children to learn the nature of the world and how to occupy an appropriate station in it, they are what my daughter Rachel helpfully called classical schools for ‘show poodles.’ These schools make it easy for critics who oppose a truly superior Christian education (which necessarily includes the inculcation of humility) to dismiss Christian schools as just more prep-school snobbery” (The Case for Classical Christian Education, p. 76).