The classical Christian education model of medieval Europe migrated to the American Colonies after the Protestant Reformation, and the majority of our Founding Fathers received this type of education. However, around the turn of the 20th Century, European Enlightenment thinking was applied to the challenges of educating a growing immigrant population, and the classical Christian education model was eliminated from public schools.

The nature of man is such that he will continue to search for meaning, but for most Americans, the historically proven classical Christian education method has been removed from their reach. One tragedy of this turn of events is that the majority of Americans don’t even know what they are missing, and history generally teaches ignorance leads to a repetition of past mistakes. Another even graver tragedy for our culture lies in the fact that the classical Christian education regularly generated national leaders. Will we soon find our nation in bondage because we have abandoned the tried and true principles of the past? Thankfully, a renewal movement is beginning within the Christian home schooling community as a few brave families venture into classical Christian home schooling which is, to them, a new frontier, but in fact, is as old as antiquity.