What Does Classical Formation Look Like?
This short film offers a glimpse into how students are formed through daily practices of learning, attention, and care.
Pursuing Embodied Wonder and Material Wisdom: Chris Hall on the Common Arts
In this episode of Forged, Chris Hall reflects on the formative power of the “common arts”—the ordinary skills and embodied practices that introduce us to the givenness of the world and manifest our humanity. Drawing on stories from the classroom and the farm, Hall argues that formation and education flourish when intellectual study is joined to hands-on craft, inviting students into apprenticeship, real responsibility, and attentiveness to the natural world. He also addresses the cultural divide between academic learning and vocational skill, urging a recovery of an older vision in which the liberal arts, practical arts, and fine arts enrich one another for the sake of a fully embodied, fully aware human life of discipline, delight, craft, and calling.
Jennifer Burns’ ‘Excelara’ Helps Parents Reclaim Their Kids’ Education
This article shares a vision for an education shaped by rigorous learning, family partnership, and the formation of students in wisdom, confidence, and character.
Why classical education is gaining ground in St. Louis
From Latin drills and logic lessons to hands-on ceramics, local schools are embracing the ancient trivium to cultivate critical thinking, character, and a deeper love of learning.