Standardized Tests: Are They More than a Rite of Passage?
Tests like the CLT reveal important information about applicants that
transcripts and written papers can’t provide.
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Is College Worth the Price?
Three hidden drivers behind rising tuition—and what students should consider instead College costs keep rising. But the real reasons aren’t always what we are told. Between tuition, housing, textbooks, and fees, the total cost of a college degree can feel overwhelming. U.S. student loan debt now exceeds $1.7 trillion, and costs continue to rise every year….
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What Happened When I Abandoned CCE
What happens to a person when he has a classical education in high school but decides to pursue a modern, secular education in college?
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Paradise Lost: The Christian Epic
Each year, New Aberdeen students pore over a single work of literature from the classical Christian tradition. This fall, they are becoming well acquainted with John Milton’s Paradise Lost: Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast(e) Brought Death into the World, and…
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How to Think, or What to Think?
This quip in classical education does not accurately express the educational goals. According to many of its proponents, classical education teaches students “how to think, not what to think.” This axiom juxtaposes the tendency in modern education to indoctrinate students into an ideology without offering them time-tested tools to interact with ideas on their own….
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Brothers, The Trades Aren’t The Only Answer
Something peculiar is brewing in higher education. Enrollment trends are shifting as four-year colleges are declining. In fact, high school grads are skipping tertiary education altogether. What caused these changes? Ultimately, the flaws in traditional higher education are plentiful, even at Christian colleges. Substance abuse. Sexual licentiousness. Ideological indoctrination. Antisemitism and other forms of racism….
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Why the Trump-Harvard Battle?
Last weekend I watched The Return to the Hiding Place, a film tracing college students’ role in the Dutch Resistance during World War II. The movie contains a powerful scene in which a German officer confronts and threatens the student body president. The Nazi’s dictum struck a chord: “As goes the will of the students,…
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Ministry Preparation at New Aberdeen
“None of these benefits of a classical education are more basic to ministry in the Church than the graces and gifts of Christ. But they can be the means that the Spirit of Christ uses to better equip the preacher, pastor, and churchman for his noble task.”
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Classical Education?
The DEI movement is neither “classical,” in that it promotes values that are contrary to traditional Western civilization, nor “Christian,” in that it is necessarily discriminatory based on such factors as race, gender, and unbiblical sexual preferences (e.g. Gal. 3:28; Rom. 1:26-27). DEI threatens the integrity of the CCE programs because it undermines the West’s legitimate cultural accomplishments and the Judeo-Christian values that underline them.
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Loving Christ With All Our Minds
When educators intentionally omit God from the classroom for the alleged purpose of moral neutrality, another organizing principle and telos will necessarily fill the resulting vacuum. Many Christians have naively accepted what they thought was agnosticism in their educational models, but it turns out to be much worse.
