I, as a Christian, should study logic because it pleases the Lord that I should grow in my likeness to him, who always knows truth from falsehood, and only ever says and defends that which is true. Further, my ability to think more clearly, and discern truth more certainly, allows me to better understand all that God has revealed to man about himself, both in creation and in the sacred Scriptures.

In November 2024, Joshua Gibbs woke me from my dogmatic leadership slumber in a CiRCE article entitled, “Leadership is a Scam.” As a result of his provocative article, I hibernated my LinkedIn account and adjusted my reading diet for 2025. In this article, I offer two pieces of context on Gibbs’ critiques and then propose five miscellanies on Classical Christian leadership.

The quadrivium is the grouping of the four liberal arts of quantity.  Preceded by the arts of the trivium, which are the arts of language, they make up the foundation of a liberal education. 

Education, from educare, calls the soul to consider the highest truths. Education easily becomes trapped in rhythms and routines. And rightly so— students of all ages need stability, repetition, regularity. But there are moments where education leaves the classroom, and in that wider space with long stretches of time together, different conversations arise.

John Calvin had much to say about the life of the mind, education, and the value of the Classical Liberal Arts. This is a compilation of quotes from Calvin as it pertains to these topics (mostly from Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion). While this catechism is not exhaustive of all of Calvin’s thoughts on these topics, it serves as a helpful starting point for Classical Christian Educators as they seek to retrieve the retrieve the historic Protestant tradition of education.

I would argue that the medieval fourfold method of interpretation, carefully done, offers a lot of value to the Christian interpreter. I would also argue that it may legitimately be done on texts other than Scripture and to great benefit.

Each student who walks through your door has a unique identity. He occupies a specific chair and comes from a specific family. However, each student also needs to learn that he is not the most important person in the room. He needs to learn how to place himself under the authority of the teacher, but maybe more importantly, each student needs to learn to take their place in the corporate body called the classroom, participating in the communal experiences requisite for true education and virtue formation—practices that shape the soul. 

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Parents are teachers. They can imitate effective teacher moves to formulate better conversations with their kids. They can join their children in the pursuit of intellectual virtue. They can ask better questions.

In the world of Classical Christian Education, there is an important resource that needs to be recovered: Protestant educators. We have a profound debt to pay to our Protestant fathers who built classical education for the last four hundred years. If we ignore them, then we will fail to recover the true powerhouse in classical education.