Recovering Mathematics in Classical Education
There is a growing resurgence of interest in classical education. In many ways, this is unsurprising. Parents and educators alike are sensing that something has been lost in modern schooling: depth, order, wisdom, attentiveness, and the formation of the mind itself.
Classical education offers an attractive corrective. It reminds us that education is not merely about producing efficient workers or successful test-takers, but about cultivating thoughtful, articulate, virtuous human beings capable of perceiving truth and reasoning well.
Yet within this resurgence, particularly in mathematics,...