Tag Archives: Classical Education

Rebuilding LionandOx

Posted on May 31, 2014 by marklangley

The lionandox has been rather inactive for the past month. One day the site just appeared to have become unusable. So we thought we would take advantage of that minor catastrophe to rebuild the whole site over here at http://www.lionandox.com. … Continue reading →

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Classical Catholic Education: Defending and Promoting Life

Posted on March 8, 2014 by marklangley

Sometimes a thought is expressed so eloquently that the only thing left for us to do is to repeat it. Demosthenes! Therefore since the Lyceum community is presently attending the Cleveland Right to Life Conference, I thought nothing could be … Continue reading →

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Hesiod And Classical Catholic Education

Posted on March 2, 2014 by marklangley

The classical Catholic educator is always interested in forming his students in the things of nature so that they might be better disposed for the things of grace. Grace builds on nature and nature is dispositive to grace. It is therefore the task … Continue reading →

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Ohioans Against The Common Core

Posted on September 15, 2013 by marklangley

Just as the fifth century B.C. Persian invasion united all Greece against Xerxes and his army of slaves, so too the Common Core- or ObamaCore- appears to be uniting good people throughout the land against the servile educational standards proposed by … Continue reading →

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No Royal Road

Posted on September 1, 2013 by marklangley

We remain convinced that The Lyceum and the many (growing and increasing!) new small Catholic independent schools across the nation are, indeed, part of the solution to the ongoing crisis in education. It is ironic that the solution these little schools … Continue reading →

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Where And When Was Catholic Classical Education Revived?

Posted on June 25, 2013 by marklangley

The Lion and Ox did not make a mention in this recent article put out by the folks at CNN. I think it is a pretty good report generally. It is about as good a description as one could expect … Continue reading →

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Herodotus and History

Posted on December 13, 2012 by marklangley

Reading Herodotus with students in the ninth and tenth grade presents some challenges. I always tell them not to worry if they don’t feel like they are understanding it on the “first read.” That is the way Great Books are. … Continue reading →

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A Case for Classical Education

Posted on September 8, 2012 by marklangley

Here is a great little article in First Things about the plight of Catholic diocesan schools in America, and how independent Catholic schools which focus on providing a classical Catholic education are providing the viable path for Catholic education. The … Continue reading →

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Why Study Latin?

Posted on February 25, 2012 by marklangley

This week marked the 50th anniversary of Pope Blessed John XXIII’s Apostolic Constitution Veterum Sapientiae DE LATINITATIS STUDIO PROVEHENDO – On the Promotion of the study of Latin- This document is absolutely wonderful. I love it! Pope John XXIII is … Continue reading →

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Rarely divide into more than two or three!

Posted on February 3, 2012 by marklangley

Unless of course one is serving cake, the classically educated mind will rarely ever divide something into more than two or three. This rule of logic as strange to some ears as it may be is loaded with profound truth … Continue reading →

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