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Core values express the fundamental beliefs and guiding principles of an organization. Clapham School is a value-rich environment that provides a different kind of education, especially in a day and age where so many values have eroded.

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Core values express the fundamental beliefs and guiding principles of an organization. Clapham School is a value-rich environment that provides a different kind of education, especially in a day and age where so many values have eroded.

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Clapham School seeks to support our students and parents on their college search journey. We kick off our college guidance each year with College Info Night. In case you missed this year's event, here is a video of the first session.

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As parents and teachers swept up in the classical education movement, it can sometimes be hard to get up to speed on the terminology. Whether it’s from teachers, administrators or fellow parents, there’s a lot of big and fancy words being...

Our culture is hungry for truth, or so it claims. From news headlines to commencement addresses to talk show discussions, the concerned demand for truth seems to be as a strong as ever. And yet, at the same time, there seems to be a daunting...

I’d like to address head on a common misconception about classical education. And this is a misconception that classical schools all over the nation have to address, and it’s the type of thing that sort of hovers on the background of...

Why do we need the art of rhetoric today?

The fear of public speaking is known as glossophobia. And pretty much everywhere I look, the statistic given is that 74% of people today suffer from some form of speech anxiety. 74%, virtually 3 in 4...

In this blog article series we are exploring the trivium, the three arts of language, what Dorothy Sayers called the lost tools of learning. These arts are not subjects, that is, topics of study unto themselves, like American Government or...