ON Classical Education
Classical education shapes minds and hearts through timeless texts, cultivating wisdom, virtue, and eloquence. The Great Hearts Institute Substack shares the latest news and insights, championing the enduring beauty of this tradition for all.
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Articles of Note: Week of September 21, 2026 (opens the original)
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Articles of Note: Week of September 14, 2026 (opens the original)
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ON Classical Education: Fall Edition, 2026 (opens the original)
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Chapter House Books: A Treasury of Children’s Literature (opens the original)
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“But do we want to go so far as to have a merely technical civilization? A hundred years after the great revolution in our culture, we might question the “too great place” of science. So many are shocked today to find their children lacking religious motivations, lacking patriotism, lacking even a very clear sense of moral responsibility. They fail to realize that these virtues are in great part culturally determined. We have lived on cultural capital from a past generation, having failed to cou
The Constitution and the Consent of the Governed (opens the original)
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Almost fifty years ago, when I was just starting graduate school, the great Walter Berns observed in class that one of the problems with our system of legal education is that lawyers were taught constitutional law, but not the Constitution. He meant, I think, that all too often judicial interpretations and doctrines take on a life of their own, obscuring or even effacing the actual words of the Constitution, from which judicial authority derives and on which it ought to rest.I could provide mul
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