The way children learn in American public schools has changed a lot over the last 250 years. Methods practiced in today's classrooms are a far cry from those taught to our founders. However, that could be shifting as classical education makes a comeback.
April 08, 2026
Teaching Students the Way the Founders Learned: Classical Education Makes a Comeback
CBN • Jennifer Wishon
Something deeper than a curriculum trend is coming back into view: the conviction that education should form not only competent workers, but articulate, thoughtful, virtuous human beings. This piece highlights the growing appeal of classical education as families seek an approach ordered toward truth, goodness, beauty, and the habits of mind that help children speak well, reason clearly, and live wisely.
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What kind of person is formed by songs, stories, gardens, books, and the patient work of making? This episode is a living picture of classical education beyond the classroom. In this conversation, Brian Williams speaks with singer-songwriter, author, and Rabbit Room founder Andrew Peterson about how truth, goodness, and beauty are carried through embodied practices: reading aloud, making music, gathering around tables, learning from creation, and practicing a craft over time. Andrew invites parents, educators, and ordinary makers to recover the courage to begin badly, the discipline to keep going, and the joy of telling the truth as beautifully as we can. Together, Brian and Andrew explore the Rabbit Room as a “wayside inn” for artists and readers, the formative power of handmade work, the goodness of amateur creativity rooted in love, and the danger of bypassing craft. This conversation offers a hopeful vision for homes, schools, and communities where beauty is not an extra, but part of how children and adults become fully human.