by Neil Anderson, Head of School I don’t know if you realize it, but your children are singing about blood and wrath and nakedness and death every morning at TCS, the very things we normally try to keep from their eyes and ears at this age. It’s really very strange when you think about it objectively. We’re used to it, but …
Counter-cultural
by Neil Anderson, Head of School Trinity Classical School is counter-cultural by its very nature. Education, culturally speaking, is a system implemented to keep children occupied during the week (while mom and dad work) with academic routines that will ultimately give them the skills they need to work themselves, while their children go to school. Our motto this year “Non …
Edmund
by Neil Anderson, Head of School Children are generally predictable. When it comes to literature, they like who they are supposed to like and hate who they are supposed to hate. For our Magician’s Nephew party, we had about 70% Aslan costumes, as I would expect of Peter Pan or Huck Finn costumes if we were reading those respective works. …
Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child
by Neil Anderson, Head of School “‘We don’t teach by rote memorization,’ say our educators today, raising their chins in pride. ‘We prefer to teach critical thinking. We prefer to tap into the imagination.’ So long as teachers keep harping on that one string, we won’t have to fear that our school will turn out the next Dante or Mozart.” …
Boys
by Neil Anderson, Head of School “Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.”~Plato At our recent Dads and Donuts, we had some valuable discussion centered around the topic of raising boys. In particular, we addressed what it should look like to cultivate Biblical manhood in our boys amidst an increasingly effeminate culture. We began to talk our …
