In my past two articles, and at our 2019 Fall Benefit, I addressed The Need to be Equipped. My goal was to unpack the inner logic of the first part of Clapham Schoo’s vision “to equip young men and women to intentionally serve Christ.” In...
As parents and teachers join 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 tossed...
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 Biology....
The liberal arts have fallen on hard times. Of course, I don’t mean that bachelor’s degrees from liberal arts colleges are in decline. The presidents of liberal arts colleges across the nation can wax eloquent about the importance of the “liberal...
By Brian Kelly
Class Six and Middle School Latin Teacher
As the Class Six teacher, I have the opportunity to introduce students into the massive realm of logic, whether it is for formal logical deductions or informal logical fallacies. Students...
By Julie Reynolds, Director of Curriculum
Recitation is one way we cultivate poetic knowledge at Clapham. How many of us still remember the verses memorized as a child in the beautiful words of the King James Version? What images have been formed in...
