Building for Generations: The Case for Classical Christian Education in America and the Vision for Knox Hall

yeah no that's so well said and i think you know we know that this is a global movement you mentioned you know it's not just happening even in the western countries even like it's it's spreading out oh yeah um

but yeah there's schools in china which is crazy yeah

and very cool very encouraging and we of course know africa is you know, really growing.

Um, but I know you're somebody that also loves this country, America.

Yeah.

You love American history.

And, and, um, so in light of that, you kind of referenced John Adams, you referenced a couple other, um, just points about America, but why should classical Christian education matter specifically for Americans? You know, like obviously we believe it matters in a global sense, but is there a specific level in which Americans should appreciate and value classical Christian ed?

Yes, I think that I firmly believe classical Christian education is the inheritance of the West.

And that doesn't mean it belongs only to the West.

But just as we grew up in we grew up in homes with mothers and fathers and the fifth commandment is to honor your father and your mother.

And by honoring your own father and your mother, you best learn how to honor the fathers and mothers of your friends when you go to their house.

And so when you are leaning into what is good about your culture, I mean, we know that just like in our own individual past lives, our own history, there's vice and there's virtue.

But when you think of all of the virtue and the goodness that has come from classical Christian education, from Christendom in the West, Um, it best teaches you how to love your people and your place and then how to appreciate and love other places and other people's and to want them to have those things for themselves as well.

And so I think that you have to start at home before you can properly, you know, look outward and, and properly, properly love others.

So.

Amen.

That's so good.

You know, one of the distinctives of this tradition is serious historical study.

You know, we go deep into the literature.

We read primary sources completely.

Theological depth, right? It's not shallow.

You really want to mine the depths of the theology of the theologians that have come before.

Um, and so do you see classical Christian schools satisfying a need for rootedness to the past that may not be found in other Christian schools? And then we would probably say certainly wouldn't be found as much in the public school realm.

Right? Yes, I do see that.

You see a huge, um, well, it's kind of a review of what I just said, but you, you can't do classical Christian education without going to the primary sources, Latin term, ad fontes, like you're going to the source of the thing.