The deleveraging – unwinding from debt – that is currently sending the U.S. financial markets reeling is but a symptom of the root problem in our economy. The sub-prime mortgage crisis that began in August 2007 was the starting point of a downward spiral in the United States’ economy. The repercussions of the sub-prime crisis shook many commercial banks, but investment banks were traumatized. Bear Stearns was the first investment bank that needed a financial rescue due to liq

Classical Christian Schools provide a liberal arts education. Classically defined, this means to “study truth for its own sake, not only for the sake of what you can do with it or what you can make with it”. (1) Aristotle used an analogy likening this type of study to a ‘free’ man who exists for his own sake and a ‘slave’ who exists for the sake of another man. The purpose, then, of liberal arts study is to educate a man to help him become a better man, not for the sake o

One of the definitions for the word tool is “anything that serves as a means: as, books are a scholar’s tools“. (Webster’s dictionary) The primary definition of tool identifies it as an implement or instrument used for work. In considering these two definitions one can ask, “If the work of a child’s (or a person’s) life is to learn, then how will that occur?”. In other words, what are the tools of learning? Whatever these tools are, they will be instruments to do the work

The 20th century system of government education in the United States has been very successful. Before concluding that perhaps this is a ridiculous statement, reason with me for a time. Paul Krugman suggested in a Roanoke Times news article, The Rise of a U.S. Oligarchy, that in the United States “income and wealth are becoming increasingly concentrated in the hands of a small, privileged elite’. (1) He reached this conclusion from examining the increase in income over time

“Knowledge puffs up but love edifies.” (1Corinthians 8:1) At the heart of classical education is a clash of worldview. Classical education alone produces an intellectual, articulate, logical, but still depraved, man. The Greek (humanist) model of the fulfillment of man is knowledge. The Hebrew (Biblical) model of the fulfillment of man is relationship. As students in a classical Christian school learn, the goal of their learning must never be knowledge for knowledge’s sak