Ok, this is incredible. A new classical Catholic high school just opened in Fairfax County (St. Jerome Institute) — this is what a serious education looks like: – Phones collected at the door – Every class is a seminar discussion – 15-20 students seated facing one another – Art and music are required, NOT elective – Math class teaches "the intrinsic beauty of math" – Entire curriculum is integrated: philosophical and theological questioning in every class And here's the literature section of the reading list: 9th grade (Exodus & Odyssey): – Homer, Odyssey – Genesis – Plato, Euthyphro and Apology – Virgil, Aeneid – Exodus – Beowulf – Song of Roland – Gospel of Luke – Plato, Phaedo and Crito – Acts of the Apostles – Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea – Wilder, Our Town 10th grade (God & Nature): – Creation myths – Plato, Timaeus and Symposium – Aristotle, De Anima – Plotinus – Augustine, Gregory of Nyssa, Bonaventure, Aquinas – Sir Gawain and the Green Knight – Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Descartes, Meditations – Bacon, Newton, Darwin – Berry, Wilder, Tolkien – Tocqueville – Benedict XVI – Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop – Faulkner, The Bear 11th grade (God & the Human Person): – Sophocles, Oedipus Rex – Plato, Symposium – Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics – Augustine, Confessions – Shakespeare, Twelfth Night and King Lear – Hobbes, Leviathan – Swift, A Modest Proposal – Austen, Pride and Prejudice – Shelley, Frankenstein – Hopkins – O’Connor – Martin Luther King Jr. – Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment – John Paul II 12th grade (God & Society): – Plato, Republic – Dante, The Divine Comedy – Aristotle, Politics – Augustine, City of God – Aquinas, De Regno – Natural and human law – Machiavelli, Hobbes – Locke, Rousseau – Marx and Engels – Dignitatis Humanae, Evangelium Vitae, Centesimus Annus – John Courtney Murray – Leviticus – Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov – The Declaration of Independence – The Constitution – The Federalist Papers "They gain an in-depth knowledge of Western civilization from Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem through England and the founding of our own country."

A classical education rescues you from the provincialism of believing that the present is the measure of all things.

The aim of classical education is not to produce useful workers, but free human beings.

The classics survived because every generation found something worth passing on. Your child gets to join a conversation hundreds of years old. That’s a lot more exciting than “assigned reading.”

The further we progress toward a technological future, the more it will become clear that classical education is the only kind of education that matters.

Read the classics to save yourself from being "merely modern"... "To be merely modern is to condemn oneself to an ultimate narrowness; just as to spend one’s last earthly money on the newest hat is to condemn oneself to the old-fashioned. The road of the ancient centuries is strewn with dead moderns." — G.K. Chesterton

Hear how @BoyceCollege is answering the call to equip more teachers to serve the classical education movement. Today on The Anchored Podcast, Jeremy speaks with Dr. Ryan Lister, Dean of Students at Boyce College, the undergraduate school of @SBTS. They talk about how Boyce's new Master of Arts in Classical Christian Education forms classical teachers to think carefully about integrating the moral and theological dimensions of education into their work with students. Watch the full episode: youtu.be/FxUHb2jwKCU

Most of what our Founding Fathers thought was essential to a good education is barely taught in schools anymore: - Classical languages - Religion - Theology - Biblical literacy - Penmanship - Cursive writing - Calligraphy - Spelling - Grammar - Syntax - Vocabulary - Etymology - Memorization - Recitation - Dictation - Logic - Formal reasoning - Rhetoric - Oratory - Public speaking - Debate - Dialectic - Persuasive writing - Essay composition - Letter writing - Philosophy - Metaphysics - Epistemology - Ethics - Moral philosophy - Natural law - Virtue - Character formation - Moral reasoning - Civics - Constitutional history - Founding documents - Political philosophy - Natural rights - Duties of citizenship - Classical literature - Epic poetry - Poetry memorization - Shakespeare - The Great Books - Ancient history - Greek and Roman history - Medieval history - Church history - Western civilization - Chronological history - Historical biography - Geography - Map reading - Mental arithmetic - Arithmetic drills - Euclidean geometry - Mathematical proofs - Astronomy - Natural history - Music theory - Choral singing - Hymnody - Drawing - Fine arts appreciation - Aesthetics - Physical education - Calisthenics - Self-discipline - Etiquette - Manners - Courtesy - Respect for elders - Personal responsibility - Prudence - Temperance - Fortitude - Justice - Intellectual humility - Independent judgment - The pursuit of truth - The cultivation of wisdom What would you add?

If you remove the patty, can you still call it a burger? If you remove logic, grammar, rhetoric, penmanship, classical languages, religion, philosophy, and civics, can you still call it education? But this is exactly what mainstream education has done.

"Education is 100% replacable by AI if education is understood as downloading information. In fact, it can probably do that job much better. But if education is fundamentally about formation, the cultivation of the right affections, a deep love of God, family, and country, and a relentless pursuit of truth, goodness, and beauty, AI doesn't stand a chance. Only inspirational teachers can do that." — Jeremy Tate @JeremyTate41

Bernini made this at just 23 years of age - it depicts Pluto, the god of the underworld, abducting the goddess Proserpina, the daughter of Jupiter.

The men who founded the United States were educated on: — Homer — Plato — Aristotle — Cicero — Plutarch Before they built a republic... They studied the republics that came before.

Did you know that in 1423, the Italian educator Vittorino da Feltre established one of the most famous schools of the Renaissance? His school in Mantua taught Latin, Greek, mathematics, music, and physical exercise. Vittorino believed that education should develop both the mind and the body. He also placed great importance on Christian faith and moral character. His school became known as La Giocosa, meaning “The Joyful House.” As the Roman educator Quintilian wrote in Institutio Oratoria: “We are naturally inclined to learn.”

Beauty is proof that humans weren't made only to survive.

One of the saddest things about modern education is that we have started treating great books as obstacles students need to get through. Homer, Shakespeare, and Dante are not simply assignments to finish. They are writers worth returning to for the rest of your life.

We should stop acting as though teaching children about the past somehow prevents them from preparing for the future. A student who understands literature and philosophy is better equipped to judge new ideas precisely because they know that not everything valuable was invented yesterday.