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Bona Verba from the Headmaster Summer reading programs, as they are conceived these days, often come bundled with corporate slogans and anxious talk of “learning loss,” a phrase that seems to have emerged from the same think-tanks as “food insecurity” or “quantitative easing”—a way of naming a problem while quietly
Bona Verba from the Headmaster Perhaps you’ve noticed: instant messaging and social media have not been kind to grammar. Adolescents—and even many adults, yes?—mangle language with carefree abandon, reducing expression to a series of half-formed thoughts, emojis, and abbreviations. The result? A world where clarity dissolves, and the precision of
Bona Verba from the Headmaster The push for Artificial Intelligence in K–12 education has been framed as a technological inevitability driven by market forces and the allure of increased efficiency. Advocates argue that AI will streamline lesson planning, individualize learning, and enhance student engagement, making the traditional classroom obsolete. Yet,
Bona Verba from the Headmaster Classical education, with its deep roots in Western civilization, remains one of the most compelling and time-honored approaches to learning. For those seeking a roadmap into the intellectual and pedagogical traditions of Cincinnati Classical Academy, these seven books provide essential insight. Each work, in its
Bona Verba from the Headmaster The following is a brief speech I delivered at The Art of Teaching: Reading and Writing conference in Cincinnati, Ohio, sponsored by Hillsdale College’s Hoogland Center for Teacher Excellence. I’d like to begin with the premise that to lead a classical school in the 21st
Bona Verba from the Headmaster It is the sheer magnitude of words and the long-proclaimed drama that makes the epic so enduring, but what of the moral infrastructure upon which these stories are propped? Each line, each image, each hard-forged maxim serves as a blueprint for how to measure one’s
Bona Verba from the Headmaster At Cincinnati Classical Academy, we reject the notion that schooling should be reduced to the mere accumulation of marketable skills or the passive absorption of information. Instead, we affirm that the highest aim of education is the formation of the intellect and character in pursuit
Bona Verba from the Headmaster It might seem counterintuitive to suggest that a classical education, rooted in Latin, logic, rhetoric, mathematics, and the great books, could be the ideal preparation for careers in technology, including computer science and “coding.” Yet at Cincinnati Classical Academy, our integrated liberal arts foundation offers
Bona Verba from the Headmaster High atop plinths of weathered granite or stoic marble, sentinel eagles perch with an unyielding gaze. Their eyes, gleaming when the sun hits just so, seem to see through the mists of time itself, standing watch over the thresholds of our most sacred and strategic
Bona Verba from the Headmaster Dostoevsky’s proclamation that “beauty will save the world” hangs in the air like a half-formed chord, a symphonic fragment waiting for resolution. What is this beauty that wields such salvific power? Is it a physical form, a Platonic ideal, or a whisper from eternity encoded
