2023 Workshop Talk | 58:27 | General Classroom, Quadrivium
Summary
The goal of classical education is to cultivate in students a classical imagination—the ability to be set free from an imaginative captivity to our time and place. This workshop will examine the classical imagination as orienting the how, what, and why of classical education. It will consider the features of the modern imagination and how a modern education tends to leave a student mentally stuck in the modern world. The recovery of classical education has involved many phases (the trivium as stages, the great books, virtue formation, and the liberal arts), but the movement for classical education is nonetheless always centered around the same
end: the recovery of the classical imagination for the modern world.
Speaker
Craig A. Hefner serves as the Head of School at Covenant School in Huntington, WV. He has a Ph.D. in Systematic Theology from Wheaton College. Craig is the author of Kierkegaard and the Changelessness of God: A Modern Defense of Classical Immutability. He is married to his wife, Rachel. They have two sons, Adler and Elliott.
Additional Materials
The Association of Classical & Christian Schools presents Repairing the Ruins, the ACCS annual conference, copyright ACCS. You may make additional copies of this recording for use by your school but please do not sell any copies of the recording, or post it on the internet.
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