Quintilian defines rhetoric as the art of a good man speaking well. Before getting into that, we need to address a problem that sometimes arises with bookish sorts. As we do this we also have to deal with the problem of doing this in our postmodern age, which is an age of sophistry, illusion, and …
The Paideia Principle
The Christian faith is a religion of world conquest, and no, not that kind of world conquest. If we do not believe this, then every form of cultural engagement will be simply a form of slow surrender. It is the way of compromise. You can always tell this kind of person because they are always …
The Vision Handoff
Pre-Introduction One of the problems with having a very efficient ACCS staff is that they request outlines from the speakers long before some of the speakers have any idea what they are going say. That means that you get a rudimentary outline, often bearing very little relation to what the speaker up front is actually …
Grape Twizzle
Eric Hoffer once noted the trajectory of institutions — first a movement, then a business, and finally a racket. As it happens, higher education in North America is deep into the racket phase. They have perfected the process of extracting money from the great American sap, whose resources appear to be limitless. The extractors have …
Hall of Tyrannus Online
The apostle Paul was a strategic thinker. He understood the concept of a “decisive point,” which is a point in the enemy’s line which is simultaneously stratetgic and feasible. No sense attacking places that cannot be taken. No sense taking places which make absolutely no difference to the battle whether or not you take them. …
Making Bricks and Mortar Stronger
One of the exciting things that Logos Online is doing is creating video classes that can serve bricks and mortar schools. The online revolution as an educational resource is not just for home-schoolers. A day school can supplement the curriculum this way as well. Click here for a video clip sampler. Logos Online School …
Teacher Pay
My posts on funding Christian education have drawn more attention than I was anticipating. Next week I want to write in greater depth about teacher salaries, but wanted to make just a few quick comments here. First, it should be taken as a given that a Christian school should remember that it was the Lord …
Mammon Academy
So let us continue a bit more on the funding of classical Christian schools. We are moving into the second generation of ACCS schools and, believe it or not, our biggest challenge in that second generation is going to be Mammon. This might be hard to believe because we are living in the seventh year …
Work in the Kingdom and Kingdom Work
Consider this my contribution to a broad discussion that is occurring among classical Christian schools. The question concerns how our schools are to be adequately funded. There are, of course, many ways to go about this, but let me limit my discussion to two very common options. The first is the tuition/tithe donation model, and …
The Accidental Educator
Through various accidents of time and other forces bigger than me, I have been involved in five educational enterprises. The first was Logos School, which we were involved in starting so our kids could have a place to attend school. The second was New St. Andrews College. The third was serving as an editor for …