"The end of education is not thinking; it is acting. It is not just knowing what to do; it is doing it. The sublime premise of a classical education asserts that right thinking will lead to right, if not righteous, acting."

David Hicks, Norms and Nobility

What: Online teaching and live discussion of Norms and Nobility every two weeks, plus access to study material to accompany your reading, as well as discussion space to explore ideas together and ask questions outside of live meetings. This book is an investment to purchase and requires an investment of time and thought as well; however, it has the potential to transform your thinking about education in a way that will be a positive benefit to a teacher, and that teacher's students, forever after.

Who: This study is for thoughtful educators who wish to deepen their knowledge of classical education and consider how ancient ideas about education and its purposes can be implemented in contemporary times. This book is for those who want to challenge themselves, as it requires effort to read.

Class Limit: Places are limited so we can all participate in discussion.

Course Dates: The course will run from September 3, 2024 to March 4, 2025.  There will be 13 live meetings, plus online discussion.

Recordings: Recording of live meetings will be sent within 24-48  hours after the meeting and available for two weeks after each class.

Time: Every other Tuesday, 7:00pm-8:00pm (CENTRAL TIME)

Cost:  $249

 $249 if registered after August 6.

Course Map 

2024

September 3 - Preface and Prologue

September 17 - Chapter 1, Virtue is the Fruit of Learning

October 1 - Chapter 2, The Word is Truth

October 15 - Chapter 3, Teaching the Father of the Man

October 29 - Chapter 4, The Tyrannizing Image

November 12 - Chapter 5, Saving the Appearance

November 26 - Chapter 6, On the Necessity of Dogma

December 10 - Chapter 7, The Ennobling of the Masses

January 7 - Chapter 8, The Promise of Christian Paideia

January 21 - Chapter 9, A Curriculum Proposal (What Might Have Been)

February 4 - Chapter 10, Some Questions and Assumptions

February 18 - Chapter 11, Three Schools in One Academy

March 4 - Chapter 12, The School Within the School, and Epilogue

About the Teacher 

Karen Glass is a homeschool mother who has taught her four children through graduation and spent over two decades delving into educational philosophy, beginning with Charlotte Mason and extending to classical educators throughout history. She has a B.A. in English, but her real education has been self-education, and her passion for education has led her to write several books, including Mind to Mind (an abridgement of Charlotte Mason's Philosophy of Education), Know and Tell: The Art of Narration, In Vital Harmony: Charlotte Mason and the Natural Laws of Education, and A Thinking Love: Studies in Charlotte Mason's Home Education.  When she asked David Hicks, the author of Norms and Nobility, to read and consider writing a Foreword to her first book, Consider This: Charlotte Mason and the Classical Tradition, he graciously consented to do so.

Join married teachers, Jonathan & Kiernan Fiore, for a journey through their mutual favorite novel to teach high school students: Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice. We'll study the novel as teachers to see how studying it helps students to learn to read classics, helps teachers to teach great literature, and helps everyone gain a more keen insight into human nature.  This class is for teachers, parents, and all curious readers who want to grow as educators and as human beings.

The Ignatius Critical Edition is recommended, but not required, and will be referred to during the session. Participants can find a free copy on Gutenberg.

Dates & Time: Wednesdays, September 25th - October 30th from 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. CENTRAL TIME

Recorded: All courses are recorded and available 48-72 hours after the course and will be available for 1 month. You will be sent a YouTube link. 

About the Instructors: Kiernan Fiore has worked as a teacher, administrator, trainer, and curriculum developer since 2011. Kiernan was classically home educated using a Charlotte Mason methodology, and her own educational experience is the inspiration for her work. She holds a BA in English from Hillsdale College and an MA in Shakespeare Studies from King’s College London and is certified in 4-8th Grade ELAR and Social Studies in Texas. After six years of working with the Founders Classical network of charter schools in Texas, she now serves as Dean of Curriculum at Holy Innocents School in Long Beach, CA. She has been married to Jonathan, also a classical educator, for six years and is the mother of three children.

Jonathan Fiore is a veteran classical educator devoted to reinvigorating classical catholic liberal arts education for the poor. He was born in California, grew up in New York, and received a classical liberal arts education at home. He studied history at Hillsdale College, and is currently obtaining his M.A. in Classical Education from the University of Dallas. He teaches Western Civilization & Humanities at Holy Innocents School in Long Beach, California. In his free time he loves to visit America’s beautiful national parks, of which his favorite is Yosemite. He is married to Kiernan, also a classical educator, and together they have three children: Catherine, Francis, and Joseph.

     "Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all  

              Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."

-John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn

What: Stratford Caldecott's work Beauty for Truth's Sake is one of the most important books written about Classical Education, in particular for its emphasis on what was called in the Medieval world, the quadrivium. If you read anything about classical education, you will often hear the term trivium, bandied about. The Trivium had to do with literary arts (reading and writing) whereas the quadrivium had to do with the numerical arts (arithmetic). This work seeks to help us understand math as an integrated part of a classical education guided by ultimate questions about the world and how we relate to it properly.

Who: Educators and parents who are interested in the history of math and how math, or more properly, the quadrivium, relates to and is an integral part of classical education.

Class Limit: Places are limited so that we can all participate in discussion.

Course Dates: The course will run from October 9th to November 20th, 2024. There will be 7 live meetings.

Please note that this class is being held on Wednesday nights. There is also a Friday night option if Wednesday is not good for you. Please do not sign up for both.

Time: Wednesdays from 7:00pm-8:00pm (Central)

Course Overview: 

October 9th - Introduction, "To Sing with the Universe"

October 16th - Chapter 1, The Tradition of the Four Ways

October 23rd - Chapter 2, Educating the Poetic Imagination

October 30th - Chapter 3, The Lost Wisdom of the World

November - 6th - Chapter 4 The Golden Circle

November 13th - Chapter 5, "Quiring to the Young-Eyed Cherubims"

November 20th - Chapter 6, The Liturgical Consummation of Cosmology 

and Conclusion, Beyond Faith and Reason

Requirements: 

A copy of Stratford Caldecott's Beauty for Truth's Sake

Recorded: Our courses are interractive, so we encourage live attendance. All courses are recorded and available 48-72 hours after the course and will be available for 1 month. You will be sent a YouTube link. 

Cost: $40 (non-refundable)

About the Teacher

Aaron Mitchell has been teaching various disciplines in classical schools since 2012. He received his B.A. from Cornell College with a triple major in Classics, Philosophy, and Religious Studies. Upon graduation, he began teaching at Great Hearts Academies in Phoenix, AZ. While there, he taught Middle and High School Latin, History, and Music. In 2017, Aaron was privileged to return to St. Peter’s Classical School, his High School Alma mater, as a faculty member. During his tenure there he taught Greek, Latin, Literature, and Euclidean Geometry. He has spent the last few years doing curricular development for Math and Classical Language instruction at St. Peter’s, particularly focusing on classical language instruction using both inductive and deductive methods, and how an ancient understanding of quantity effects math instruction. He currently teaches Humanities and Euclidean Geometry at Great Hearts Academies. He enjoys reading poetry, playing music with his wife Corrie, and watching their son play youth baseball.