OUR STORY
What is Classical Conversations?
Classical Conversations is a leader in the home-centered education movement.
It is a mission: To know God and to make Him known. It is a model: Classical Conversations combines the classical method of learning with a biblical worldview. It is a method: Classical Conversations families meet in communities where parents train parents to implement home-centered education well.
In the 1990's, when many homeschool families were releasing their rising high school students to public or private school, Rob & Leigh Bortins were reluctant to compromise on the model they had practiced of classical, Christian education. So they began inviting like-minded families into their home each week for tutoring sessions to continue their high school students' learning...and Classical Conversations began. To read more, visit Leigh Bortins website.
There are two ways in which Classical Conversations "combines classical learning with a biblical worldview." The first is the more significant: classical education is a methodology. In important ways, it is not content-based—although excellent content must of course be chosen. It is a method, and its methodology is expressed through the Trivium, three of the seven Liberal Arts. "Liberal," in this case, stems from the Latin word liber, meaning "free." Education by means of the seven Liberal Arts nurtures children in ways that ensure they mature into free human beings.