I’m with you completely. I have been in “Christian education” for about 12 years now, and I can attest that our students are impoverished beyond description. If I had my way, our school would immediately switch over to classical education. We’d have shorter days and less “busy work” homework.

As a man who just turned 40, it is never too late to begin reading old books. I’ve been reading “City of God,” started (but did not finish) Don Quixote, read “The Bondage of the Will,” by Luther; read “Jane Eyre”, and am planning on plodding my way through book after book, Lord willing. I doubt I’ll ever learn Latin, but I have good facility with Koine Greek (though I doubt I’ll read much of anything outside the NT).

I have a lot of thoughts on education and why Christians have abandoned the serious pursuit of it. I have some thoughts on what we need to do, but they need refining. The biggest hurdle is money. Christians simply don’t want to fund proper Christian education, nor pay proper salaries to those who want to teach. You can’t possibly expect to attract the “best and brightest” Christian minds to teach at schools that pay less than $40,000 in a place like California.

“Certain writers, of whom I am one, do not live, think or write on the range of the moment. Novels, in the proper sense of the word, are not written to vanish in a month or a year. That most of them do, today, that they are written and published as if they were magazines, to fade as rapidly, is one of the sorriest aspects of today’s literature, and one of the clearest indictments of its dominant aesthetic philosophy: concrete-bound, journalistic Naturalism which has now reached its dead end in the inarticulate sounds of panic.”