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Early in The Odyssey, before Telemachus ever sets sail from Ithaca, the goddess Athena comes to him in disguise. First she appears as Mentes, an old family friend, and urges the young man to seek news of his father. Then, in the form of another friend, Mentor, she helps him
One of the Hillsdale College videographers looked around CLASSICAL this week and said, almost to himself, “This isn’t normal.” Another crew member, after spending time in our classrooms, watching our students, and talking with our teachers, offered a different observation: “I think I’d enjoy working here myself.” I have been thinking about
Ninety-six kindergarteners walked together into our lower school this week for the official First Day of Kindergarten. Nearly half of them arrived as strangers to us, from families who had never before worn the mantle of CLASSICAL parents. I want to tell you what that first walk through our doors
Last week, I was up later than I should admit, sitting on my back deck with our new yearbook, The Classical Scroll, open on the table in front of me. I was not only admiring the photography, which is lovely this year. I was studying names. Grade by grade, homeroom
A school year begins long before the first bell rings. It begins in a classroom, when students meet their teacher—or, for Upper School students, teachers—who will challenge them, encourage them, correct them, inspire them, and, over the course of the year, come to know them in ways that extend far
One of the best ways to begin a new school year is to return to the source of what we are trying to accomplish together. For Cincinnati Classical Academy, that source is our commitment to a classical education, and one of the great privileges of being a Hillsdale College k-12
A new school year is upon us, and I confess I look forward to the first days of August as much as any stretch on the calendar. There is a kind of hope that belongs to a school in late summer, when the halls are freshly waxed awaiting the footfalls
Summer vacation is almost here, and I want to say something to your children before they walk out our doors for the last time this year. I want to say it to you as well, because you are the ones who will shape what these next two and a half
On Tuesday evening, May 12, Dr. Hartings and I delivered the fourth annual State of the School Address. Each year, this occasion gives me the chance to step back from the urgency of daily school life and account honestly for what we have built, what we have learned, and where
Cincinnati Classical Academy exists to form young people — not to credential them, not to prepare them for a sequence of standardized tests, but to hand them a civilization and teach them to inhabit it. That work happens in Latin class and in the study of Euclid. It happens when
