I home schooled my children till 16 — all four got into Oxbridge
This week my son Xavier will start his first term at Oxford University studying maths, my fourth child to get into Oxbridge. His older sisters, Olivia and Felicity, are Oxford graduates in classics and music respectively and his older brother, Max, has a degree in engineering from Cambridge. Two of them had choral scholarships; two had academic scholarships.
Bessent Advances Divisive $26 Billion School Tax Credit Plan
The program, dubbed the Education Freedom Tax Credit, allows individual taxpayers to direct up to $1,700 of their annual federal tax bill to nonprofits that grant scholarships to students to pay for qualified educational expenses.
The problem is broader than a single generation. Most podcasts I find unlistenable simply because whatever language the hosts are speaking is not English. It’s something else entirely and barely coherent. My complaints are not traceable to some kind of grammatical snobbery. There is much more at stake here: the very capacity of humanity to communicate.
n his commentary on the Talmud — a body of Jewish learning that represents one of the greatest models of cultural preservation in the history of mankind — the medieval philosopher Moses Maimonides pointed to the rabbinic idea that "the world is sustained only by the breath of schoolchildren." His insight is a deep one: that the fate of every civilization depends, over the long term, on the work of perpetuation and transmission.
"Education is that vast undertaking of passing on the wisdom and knowledge of one generation to the next."
— Dr. Christopher Perrin
Stay Oriented
Occasional stories, reflections, and resources to support your exploration of classical education.
