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Christian parents need the classics too by Nadia Williams, read by the author.

A few years ago, Prince George, the eldest grandchild of King Charles, was beginning elementary schooling.

An article noted that, as has been typical for elite British education for generations,

the little prince was beginning his study of Latin.

We often forget that a robust education in the classical languages and the literary classics, including the literature of Greece and Rome, was an educational staple in America's past.

Reading the Founding Fathers, it is striking how frequently references

to Greco-Roman classics roll off their pens. But we don't live in the 1700s.

My Virginia Public High School offered Latin until the year after I graduated,, that opportunity was rare. In the 1990s,

only 3.5% of American high school students were enrolled in Latin. Additionally, fewer

schools and universities are assigning the great works of pre-modern civilization at any level. And so, most adults my age

and younger probably missed out on much exposure not only to the Greco-Roman classics, but also to

non-Western and modern classics. What if you've realized as an adult that you missed out by not receiving a classical education

and now believe that your kids need the classics? It's not too late to dive in alongside your

kids. It's worth it too because Christian parents need the classics for the same intellectual

and spiritual benefits that make these

books good for our children. Find your community. It may not feel like it if you don't know

a lot of like-minded families, but classics reading families are legion and their strength

in numbers. It's no coincidence that classical

Christian schools and homeschool co-ops are growing so explosively now. They're serving children

whose parents often didn't have the education their kids are now receiving, but who realize

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