Articles tagged C.S. Lewis

Musings on Humility: Stepping Out in Faith to Direct Challenge II

by April
Friday, 26 June, 2015
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Homeschooling Life
Friday, 26 June, 2015
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Homeschooling Life
“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts” (C. S. Lewis, Abolition of Man). One may not immediately make the connection between this quote and humility, or the virtue of humility. Neither did I upon first reading it. However,...

Staff Reading Picks - March 2015
by Jennifer
Monday, 09 March, 2015
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education
Monday, 09 March, 2015
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education
Classical Conversations staff members are avid readers. We thought you might enjoy a peek at our personal reading this month.
Matt Bianco – Education Director
I am currently reading C.S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man and Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities. The...

Staff Reading Picks - March 2015
by Jennifer
Monday, 09 March, 2015
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education
Monday, 09 March, 2015
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education
Classical Conversations staff members are avid readers. We thought you might enjoy a peek at our personal reading this month.
Matt Bianco – Education Director
I am currently reading C.S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man and Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities. The...

True Mythology - "Perfect Myth and Perfect Fact" (Part II: This Is His Spoken World)
by Kate
Thursday, 30 May, 2013
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Thursday, 30 May, 2013
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Through Him were all things made. Welcome to His poem. His play. His novel. Skip the bowls of fruit and statues. Let the pages flick through your thumbs. This is His spoken world...

True Mythology - "Perfect Myth and Perfect Fact" (Part I: True Mythology Correlates with Absolute Reality)
by Kate
Tuesday, 14 May, 2013
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education
Tuesday, 14 May, 2013
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education
We need stories. Since ancient times, we have turned to stories, tales, and myths in order to articulate our understanding of the cosmos. Not only do these narratives enable us to describe reality, they portray humanity’s place and purpose in the creation. Stories...