by Brad Littlejohn | Oct 1, 2019 | Classical Education
Read part one and part two of this series. In the last two talks, we’ve looked at six different forms of the “vice of curiosity: first, three ways in which we can seek knowledge of the wrong things, and then three forms of seeking knowledge in the wrong ways. But...
by Brad Littlejohn | Sep 24, 2019 | Classical Education
Read part one and part three of this series. In the last talk, I introduced the notion that not all seeking after knowledge is good, and the older use of the term “curiosity” as a label for a disordered and sinful search for knowledge. We also looked at the first...
by Brad Littlejohn | Sep 16, 2019 | Classical Education
Read part two and part three of this series. In these Assembly talks, I want to explore how to rightly order our loves when we seek after knowledge. Believe it or not, just because knowledge is a good, this doesn’t mean that every kind of knowledge, or any old way of...
by Brad Littlejohn | Jun 27, 2019 | Classical Education
Most of us are familiar with the term “liberal arts,” but few of us stop to consider this curious term. Why “liberal”? Presumably not because these are the arts favored by political progressives (even if many historic “liberal arts colleges” have become quite...
by Brad Littlejohn | May 14, 2019 | Classical Education
This is the third installment of a three-part series explaining the vision for Loudoun Classical School. Why does Loudoun County need a classical Christian school? Well in part, the answer for that is easy—because children need classical Christian schools, and Loudoun...