Poetic Knowledge (Or, Magic of Mother Academia) | The Commonplace | Classical CM Home Education

education is an inherently formational project, not just an informational endeavor.

Since education is a formative project, aimed at the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, then the teacher is a steward of transcendence who needs not only to know the Good but also to teach from that conviction.

Surrounded by more than a thousand books and guided by our mother’s one mantra, to love learning, we saw the beauty of what could be known. “Take control of your education,” she would say, “no one is spoon-feeding you. Figure out what you want to know and then figure out how to learn it.”

Doing all of this—curating an exceptional milieu, providing dedicated tutoring and opportunities for apprenticeship—is hard work. You could pull it off if you put your mind to it, I trust. Though, like everything pursued to excellence, it would demand serious sacrifices. Particularly of time. It is ok not to want that.

A lot of it does not require s

What, then, would liberating imagination look like? Schools could grow our hearts, not just our minds, helping us reimagine who and what we value.