What is Classic Insights?

The Nature of Education

Classic Insights is a practical, engaging, and personally meaningful guide to some of the highest and greatest achievements of western culture. The curriculum is presented as intellectually nourishing food for thought, ideas to digest and make part of your vision of yourself and the world – not as separate subjects but as an intellectual and spiritual whole.

The program expands the mind to include the heart, nurturing a continuing growth of knowledge. Since educate derives from the Latin educere – to draw forth or lead out – there is no education without individual self-transformation.

Knowledge is not information found in books or computers. Knowledge derives from an active knower who assimilates information to make the world, or some part of it, more comprehensible. Knowledge is a dynamic personal extension of the conscious Human Being, fluid and pulsing with intellectual vitality from the spirit of the knower. Knowledge is more verb than noun, the impetus for doing . Questions evolve and ideas emerge from the energized imagination. Understanding unfolds.

Your sense of purpose and personal responsibility will follow your integration of ideas into a coherent vision of the world and your place therein. The vitality, expansion, and scope of that vision will affect your sense of purpose, order, and meaning.

Classic Insights is the beginning of real learning.