Posts from the Scholé Academy Faculty are written and reviewed together by the instructors and staff of Scholé Academy, the online school of Classical Academic Press. They draw on years of teaching live, online classes in the classical Christian tradition across the Great Hall and the Houses of Studies. Meet our team.
What did C.S. Lewis believe about education? A look at how Lewis was taught, why he urged us to read old books, how his sense of wonder grew,…
And God said “Let there be music...” Well, not exactly. God said let there be seas; let there be birds, fish and animals; let there be rivers and…
How readers approach a poem, or short story, or novel will determine what they find. There is an old saying that everything looks like a nail, if one…
Earlier this school year (October 2022), I penned an article published in this blog: “A Tamed Tongue As a Type of Temperance.” Its subtitle, “Self-Control in Speech,” pointed…
~ by Joanne Schinstock, Presb. Maria Koulianos, and Rhea Bright ~From the inception of Scholé Academy in 2014, Dr. Perrin’s vision included three houses of studies to provide…
For many, reading is one of the great joys of life. We find adventure, beauty, insight into the human condition, new skills, and even the courage to face…
~ by Jesse Hake and Joelle Hodge ~ Dante and Beatrice lived on the top of my bookshelf. Or rather, matching Dante and Beatrice bookends crown the highest…
I recently broached the subject of fortitude with my high school science students. Initially we reflected on figures like Nelson Mandela, Naboth and his vineyard, and Atticus Finch. …
Noah was commanded by God to build a boat and declare to his neighbors that a flood was coming to destroy them. For decades of cloudless skies, he…
Before teaching for Scholé, I previously taught at another school, and one of my favorite traditions was the “morning circle.” My first grade class and I began our…
Student: “Do I need to show my work?” I can still remember sitting in middle school algebra and hearing our much-loved teacher urge students over and over to…
An underlying concern lies at the heart of how we go about our annual Christmas customs: how do we pass meaningful traditions down to our children? Indeed, in…
