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Thoughts on History (by Wilfred M. McClay)
We always like to think of history beginning, as stories do, with the words “once upon a time,” or something equivalent. But that is not quite true. We never can... Read more
The Cave, the Quadrivium, & Classical Education
What place should the study of mathematics have in classical education? Most classical schools rightly emphasize the linguistic arts of the trivium—grammar, logic, and rhetoric—but few have thought through (much less... Read more
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