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 seeks to deliver high-quality, affordable, and relevant education for classical teachers, administrators, curriculum designers, and lifelong learners of any age.
Our website is currently under construction. Please feel free to reach out if you would like information about our programs, or if you are interested in donating to support The Logres Institute for Classical Liberal Studies: logresinstitute@gmail.com
What is Classical Education?
Classical education is “what education used to be.” It insists that students need to study hard and acquire knowledge for the purpose of forming wisdom. It immerses students in the books, ideas, and skills of the past five millenia; it is tried and true, and equips students to pursue happiness.
How can Classical Education address declining student performance?
Classical education assumes the student needs ideas and truth for spiritual development; both ideas and truth are found through engaging in the tradition of western knowledge. Through rich engagement in reading, writing, thinking, and discussing, students outperform their progressive education counterparts; such achievement, however, is a byproduct of true education (rather than the purpose itself). Classical education methods are implemented at developmentally appropriate levels, and thus fit the natural growth of children into adults.
Shouldn’t I go to college to learn how to be a teacher?
You should go to college to study what you love; if you love some real subject, and become proficient at communicating that love to others, a school can help you learn the craft of teaching. College years can give you the space to learn something true and worthwhile; such a season cannot make you a good teacher. Squandering these years puts the cart before the horse. 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?
Instead of focusing on education as a tradition of knowledge to be passed on generation after generation, 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. It also fails to deal with a changing marketplace. Classical education prepares students to be fully alive humans, while progressive education prepares students for outdated jobs. We are made for som much more.
What do classical teachers need to know?
Classical teachers need to know the whole tradition. They need to situate literature within historical context, be able to translate all 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 also be fluent in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew; he 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 is a recognition that you have gone through a specific curriculum and held specific conversations; it signifies that you are in a position to lead others through a similar course. Curriculum derives from the Latin circus, meaning a path that the horses would trod; it refers in this case to a sequence of books identified through a specific certificate. It is a guarantee that you have read the works assigned, and a promise that you’ve experienced the helpful guidance of a skilled Socratic instructor asking the right questions to help you see more into the text. A Logres Certificate is also your connection into a community of intellectually engaged teachers who are seeking to build community through reading and discussing great ideas.
