Helpful Websites

• ACCS
  Association of Classical and Christian Schools
• The Society for Classical Learning
• Classis
  A monthly publication of articles and essays on classical Christian education
• Circe Institute
  Contains many helpful articles on classical and Christian education.  This is also the developer of the excellent “Lost Tools of Writing” which we will use in our secondary program.
• Veritas Press
  The Detweilers have been providing top notch classical materials to families and schools for many years.  There is nothing like Veritas Press.
• New Saint Andrew’s College
  Rigorous classical education, centered around church homes instead of the artificial dorm experience, affordable
• Memoria Press and Classical Academic Press
  Not as well-known or comprehensive as Veritas Press, but both of these groups have made impressive contributions to the modern classical Christian curriculum.
• Classical Conversations History Timeline with Hand Motions
• Here’s a BHCA student performing the Timeline with Hand Motions with excellence!
• Jamie Soles’ music–Highly, Highly, Highly, Highly recommended!
• Judy Rogers’ music–also excellent

Recommended Reading

Classical Education 101–These are the primers on classical Christian education in our day.

• The Case for Classical Christian Education
  by Douglas Wilson–a standard explanation and defense of classical and Christian education
• Repairing the Ruins
  edited by Douglas Wilson–essays exposing the problems of modern, government education, and offers some practical advice for getting into classical and Christian education
• On Secular Education
  by R. L. Dabney–written over a century ago; exposes the inevitable problems with secularizing education
• Wisdom and Eloquence
  by Robert Littlejohn and Charles T. Evans–a helpful description of classical and Christian education
• The Well-Trained Mind
  by Jesse Wise and Susan Wise-Bauer–This book has done more than any other in bringing an achievable form of classical education to the homeschool.
• “The Lost Tools of Learning”
  by Dorothy Sayers–an excellent essay applying stages of development to the liberal arts
• “The Greatest Single Defect of My Own Latin Education”
  by Dorothy Sayers–explains why Latin is often so difficult for modern students

Going Further–The following books are important because of what teach us about the nature of classical education.  Several of them are not written from a Christian perspective, and consequently tend to glorify classical civilization.  They are all, however, full of helpful information.

• Norms and Nobility
  by David Hicks–a weighty defense of true liberal arts education
• Climbing Parnassus
  by Tracy Lee Simmons–a defense of teaching Latin and Greek
• Who Killed Homer?
  by Victor Hanson and John Heath–helpfully explains the demise of classical studies
• Johann Sturm on Education
  Here is a clear picture of Protestant Classical Education dating back to the beginning of the Reformation.  You will find that things have changed remarkably.  There is, however, much that we should preserve.
• The Abolition of Man
  by C. S. Lewis–Lewis describes–as only he can–what happens when education is divorced from values and absolutes.