The idea of approaching education—even that part of education that we consider “school”— as a process of developing character and virtue rather than developing the intellect requires a paradigm shift for most of today’s educators. We might understand character-training as a task that belongs to parents, or churches, but we tend to separate that kind of teaching from the teaching of school subjects such as math or grammar. The classical educators did not make such a distinction. All areas of education were brought into service for this single goal—to teach children to think and act rightly.
