When we worship an eternal, omnipotent, and sovereign God, our response should be nothing less than visionary.
In Answer to the Prayers of Children
Thank you to all those who labour in prayer with us for what God is doing at KCCS and in the hearts of these children and their families. Our school may be small, but we serve a big God. Though we are but dust, God eagerly bends His ear to be attentive to our prayers, and even the prayers of children!
The Rightness of Rigour
The Work of Wonder and the Problem of “Keeping Things Interesting”
Who Actually Teaches Your Kids?
Private Education for the Public Good
Training the Soul
Kawartha Classical Christian School: How a Dream Became Reality
A Classical Response to the Charge of Elitism
Some may say that to stay within the bounds of what we know and have always done will be safer than risk. We believe, however, that to resist the good we know we ought to do is neither right nor safe. We cannot afford to equip ourselves, or our students, with second-rate weapons. The Enemy is elite. And so he must be answered with the excellency of God’s mighty weapons.
What is a Truly Christian Education?
What, then, is a truly Christian education? Perhaps we could summarize it as a desire to provide an excellent education, with the end of graduating true disciples. At its heart, it must be more than simply adopting the posture of an appealing culture. Rather it must be shaped, down to its very roots, by the living, enduring, Word of God.
Worldview: The Critical Ingredient Behind Education
There are some who might view such questions as irrelevant, or an exercise in overthinking. Others may deem their children resilient enough to withstand whatever consequences may come about by not thinking about them. The problem here is that when we don’t make decisions based on convictions, we will likely make them based on convenience (the distance, cost, or size of a school). But what if the answers to such questions carried massive implications for your child’s future? What if an educational institution’s “soil” was the most critical factor to the detriment, or flourishing, of their students?
Dream Big, Start Small, Grow Slow
Plungers and Other Tools
Raft Building and the Great Conversation
Why History Class Must Die
Repetition is the Mother of (Restful) Learning
Repetition is well-established as a component of classical pedagogy. Repetition helps us memorize, helps us remember, helps us perfect and master. I have come to see another virtue in repetition: Repetition is restful. Repetition brings the shoulders down and reduces tension for both the student and the teacher.
Hidden Messages: Why Classroom Atmosphere Matters
How Reading Stories Helps Children Love the Truth
We don’t want our kids to grow up and face adversity wondering, Do I have what it takes? We want them to know. We want them to have witnessed so many heroes living with integrity and fighting their weaknesses that they trust in the sureness of doing the right thing, even when no one is watching. We want them to stand up like warriors.
Imitation, Memory, Love: What Classical Teachers Can Learn from Music Lessons
For classical educators striving to “integrate the disciplines,” music provides an invaluable instrument of integration. Music studies harmonize with every core discipline of he curriculum: the music of various periods vocalizes the movements of history, the formal structures of music correspond to the formal structures of poetry, the theory of music applies principles of mathematics, the physics of music makes audible the laws of science.
Classical Ed: What To Think or How To Think?
Christian education demands that we teach students what to love and how to love, for love is simply the greatest kind of knowledge. A classical education aims to train the affections and show a man how to “rightly order his loves” (ordo amoris), though a man cannot order his loves until he knows what they are.