Get the education your college should have provided.
We equip teachers to transmit the Western Tradition to the next generation.
Welcome to The Logres Institute, where we form community through engaging the texts of the classical liberal tradition, producing a pipeline of knowledgeable teachers to supply the classical education renewal movement.
In partnership with The Ciceronian Society, Logres delivers high-quality, affordable, and relevant education for classical teachers, administrators, curriculum designers, and lifelong learners of any age.
What is Classical Education?
Classical education is “what education used to be.” It immerses students in the books, ideas, and skills of the past five millenia; in so doing, it equips students to pursue happiness.
How can Classical Education address declining student performance?
Students need ideas and truth for spiritual growth; both ideas and truth are found through engaging in the tradition of western knowledge. Through rich engagement in reading, writing, thinking, and discussing, classical students outperform their progressive counterparts; such achievement, however, is a byproduct of true education (rather than the purpose itself).
Shouldn’t I go to college to learn how to be a teacher?
If you love some real subject, and become proficient at communicating that love to others, a school can initiate you into the craft of teaching. College years provide space to apprentice in a worthwhile discipline; such a season cannot make you a good teacher. Study deeply in college, and then teach at a great classical school. You’ll spend the first two years acquiring teacher-craft: classroom management, knowledge division, assessment strategies, parent communication, event planning. But you’ll have a foundation of knowledge on which to stand.
The Case for Classical Education
What’s currently being taught in most schools?
Most schools focus on job preparation as the end goal for student success. Such an emphasis short-changes students, depriving them of their intellectual inheritance. Classical education prepares students to be fully alive humans, while progressive education prepares students for outdated jobs. We are made for more.
What do classical teachers need to know?
Classical teachers need to know the tradition. They need to situate literature within historical context, be able to translate foreign phrases, notice and explain philosophical ideas when encountered, be conversant in mathematical and scientific approaches, while being experts in human nature. Such a teacher should have the broadest sympathies and the most specific knowledge in areas of interest. While recognizing the prior description as a necessary goal, every classical educator acknowledges the impossibility of fully reaching it; teaching is a calling that allows one to continue growing in knowledge over a lifetime.
What would a Logres certificate do for me?
A Logres Certificate recognizes the graduate has gone through a specific curriculum and held specific conversations; it signifies being in a position to lead others through a similar course. It affirms having read the works assigned, and learned from a Socratic instructor asking the right questions. A Logres Certificate is also your connection into a community of intellectually engaged teachers seeking to build community through encountering and discussing great ideas.
