“A classical education is primarily concerned with the right reordering of the student’s affections, teaching them to enjoy good things, teaching them to hate wicked things, teaching them to love most what is most worthy of their love. A classical education is also concerned with giving students what I can only call “the classical spirit,” a spirit contrary to the spirit of our “evil age”, as St. Paul puts it. The classical spirit also provides a vantage point from which to dispassionately observe this age lest the student spend their whole life being hustled from one empty, fashionable idea to the next—before finally concluding that no idea is really worth anything.”

Joshua Gibbs, CIRCE Institute
A select quote from Gibbs’s recent article “Against Teaching To Your Top Third”