Good Art Takes Time
Art awakens us to the world as it truly is – complex and mysterious yet knowable, in shades, all at once. The best artists, if you think...
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Mr. Burton Gildersleeve
- Nov 12, 2021
- 2 min
Nature Studies at WCA
Jonathan Edwards, who by many is considered one of America’s foremost theologians, and who wrote great works such as The Religious...
Mr. Burton Gildersleeve
- Apr 16, 2021
- 3 min
Why study Latin?
It’s a question as likely as April rain. Many Academy students ponder it, though only before they’ve taken the class, and rarely...
Haidyn Hudson
- Apr 16, 2021
- 3 min
Thoughts of a New Academy Student
The following is the transcript of a speech given by Haidyn Hudson at Friday Chapel in February, 2021: I was asked to give a short...
Mr. James Chertudi
- Jan 28, 2021
- 2 min
Improving Student Rhetoric Through Immersion
A critical role of the classical educator is to guide students to the rhetoric stage, the summit of a classical education. Young...
Mr. Holden Sieler
- Jan 28, 2021
- 2 min
The Rhetoric of Virtue
Rhetoric, according to Aristotle, is the art of persuasion. Mobilizing the weapons of word, emotion, and credibility—what the philosopher...
Valentina Boyle
- Jan 28, 2021
- 3 min
Doomed to Live
Irony is a literary device by which language or expectation is undermined in a narrative. There is a significant use of irony in the...
Mr. Burton Gildersleeve
- Nov 3, 2020
- 2 min
Little Things Make Big Things Happen
“It’s the little things that are vital,” John Wooden once stated; “Little things make big things happen.” Anderson, a 7th grader at the...
Mr. Burton Gildersleeve
- Nov 3, 2020
- 2 min
The Heart of Science
You’ve likely felt it, that inimical sensation that comes when you close the pages of a great book. The written words transport you to...
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