{"id":1817420,"date":"2023-01-20T12:34:35","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T17:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1817420"},"modified":"2023-01-20T12:39:57","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T17:39:57","slug":"wokeness-is-coming-for-classical-christian-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wokeness-is-coming-for-classical-christian-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Wokeness Is Coming For Classical Christian Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwokeness-is-coming-for-classical-christian-education%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1817420&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>It\u2019s been a good year for classical Christian education. Threefold more school starts have been made, and a book about classical education ranked No. The New York Times Bestseller List ranked 1 and Fox Nation will launch season 2 of the popular series on classical Christian education on January 26. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/nation.foxnews.com\/watch\/4d3026afac582920e79526395dee8147\/mode\/restart\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Miseducation of America<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/nation.foxnews.com\/watch\/4d3026afac582920e79526395dee8147\/mode\/restart\/\">.<\/a>\u201d Naturally, growth brings attention. It is not common for someone to have ties with our movement at this time. <em>\u2014 <\/em>One of our own <em>\u2014 <\/em>A growing divide is brought to the forefront<\/p>\n<p>Jessica Hooten Wilson, an online journalist, asked the question, &#8220;What is your favorite thing about January 12?&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/currentpub.com\/2023\/01\/12\/is-white-supremacy-a-bug-or-a-feature-of-classical-christian-education\/#comments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cIs White Supremacy a Bug or a Feature of Classical Christian Education?<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/currentpub.com\/2023\/01\/12\/is-white-supremacy-a-bug-or-a-feature-of-classical-christian-education\/#comments\">\u201d<\/a>\u00a0It is not surprising that she experiences pressure in her main academic environment at Pepperdine University. \u201cI experience regular pushback from those who perceive [classical Christian education] as white, Western-only, and male-dominated.\u201d She proceeds to cast aspersions on a few people and organizations \u2014 including, indirectly, mine. Her accusations serve as a pretext for her thesis. \u201cIf the classical Christian school movement is to survive \u2014 let alone flourish \u2014 we must oppose all forms of racism and misogyny and stand with the beauty, goodness, and truth that we hold up for our students.\u201d I\u2019ll take her up on that charge.<\/p>\n<p>Hooten Wilkinson is a staccato note that appears at the end to a new tune within our circle. Her article praises groups that she believes are doing the right things. So far, I\u2019ve heard no one publicly state the thesis so clearly as she does: \u201cWe should peruse the authors of the works and, if applicable, the editors or introductory writers to ensure an assortment of voices \u2026 as well as an equality of both sexes. If we look at the table of contents of a textbook or a reading list for a semester and find not a single woman or person of color in that list, then that curriculum is misrepresenting the classical Christian tradition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> The Classical Canon <\/p>\n<p>The classical canon has been a source of many cultural influences for the past three millennia. It was created by philosophical, literary, and theological authors. During much of the same period, learned scholars made lists of those who deserved it. \u201ccanon\u201d status. It is unclear if there are minorities or women in Cassiodorus\u2019 list of authors (400 A.D.), or Leonardo Bruni or Battista Guarino\u2019s lists (humanists from the 1400s) \u2014 they don\u2019t use those categories. Mortimer Adler, along with his 40-strong team of renowned scholars, chose the most well-respected list of books based on their contributions to history. \u201cthe great conversation.\u201d Adler\u2019s merit-based criteria required a work to have changed the course of history and to have developed the collective Western mind. What Adler\u2019s team did not do is look to race or sex as criteria.<\/p>\n<p>The Western classical tradition has included people of all races and sexes for a long time: It includes a number of texts that address universal truths about humanity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Classical Christian education is not \u2018racist\u2019 or \u2018misogynist.\u2019 Its texts address the universal truths about the human condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1682,"featured_media":1817423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[4592,13102,4726,5152,6919,6227],"class_list":["post-1817420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-christian","tag-classical","tag-coming","tag-education","tag-federalist","tag-wokeness"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1682"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1817420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1817423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1817420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1817420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1817420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}