Dallas Lecture Series #1: Talking about Classical Christian Education

You are walking in the grocery store, minding your own business, fairly confident that you know what you are doing with your life, when you run into a family friend who strikes up a conversation. They wind up asking a question that seems simple on the surface, “So what is classical Christian education? What makes it different?”

 

You get excited. You love Classical Christian education. This is the perfect chance for you to talk about something you love.

 

Then you begin trying to cram millennia of educational insight into a 30 second sound-bite. You want to communicate well, but what really comes out is something more like, “Well. Hm. We learn Latin. And we read the Iliad and the Odyssey. And our students can read, and speak, and write really well, eventually. And we don’t pass out iPads to every incoming PreK student… There is a lot more to it than that, but it is a long story. I promise it is great!”

 

This may have never happened to you, but it will eventually. It has certainly happened to me. Classical Christian Education is a complex animal, and it takes a lot of work to understand what all it entails. And it takes a lot more work to distill some of what it entails down to a minute-long conversation in the grocery store.