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# Patrick Halbrook

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- [Does Open Inquiry Belong in Religious Schools?](https://patrickhalbrook.com/open-inquiry-in-religious-schools/) - Originally Published by The Mill Institute on the UATX website. Learn more about the Mill Institute at mill-institute.org.“Christianity, just as much as Islam, teaches children that unquestioned faith is a virtue. You don’t have to make the case for what you believe.”– Richard Dawkins, The God DelusionRichard Dawkins would not be very impressed to hear
- [What You Need to Know about...Dorothy L. Sayers](https://patrickhalbrook.com/dorothy-sayers/) - Originally published on the blog of Professor Adam Laats.How did a British detective novelist inspire an evangelical pastor from a small town in Idaho to found one of the fastest growing Christian schooling movements in America decades after her death?Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) is most widely remembered today not for her writings on education (which
- [The Forgotten Textbook at the Center of the Scopes “Monkey” Trial](https://patrickhalbrook.com/the-forgotten-textbook/) - One hundred years ago in 1925, the Scopes “Monkey” Trial, one of the nation’s first media sensations, engrossed and amused Americans across the country. Listeners and readers of all backgrounds tuned in their radios and perused columns by writers like H. L. Mencken to find the latest updates and accusations concerning the high school science
- [Russian Literature & Anna Karenina](https://patrickhalbrook.com/russian-literature-anna-karenina/) - Last year I listened to an interview with Russian Literature Professor Gary Saul Morson that prompted me to read Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina (1878) for the first time. I won’t say how long it took me to finish this massive 700+ page book, but let’s just say it was less than the two years I
- [7 Facts You Probably Didn't Know about the Scopes "Monkey" Trial](https://patrickhalbrook.com/7-facts-about-the-scopes-trial/) - Today, July 21, marks the 100th anniversary of the verdict in one of the most misunderstood events of the 20th century, the 1925 Scopes “Monkey” Trial.On this day, high school teacher John Scopes was found guilty of violating a Tennessee law that made it illegal “to teach any theory that denies the story of the
- [Xenophobia of the Past](https://patrickhalbrook.com/xenophobia-of-the-past/) - Picture this unpleasant scenario: an American school group travels to foreign countries around the world, walking the streets of cities as diverse as Rome, Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro, Johannesburg, and Moscow. Their American tour guide does nothing but disparage every place they go. In one city, he speaks at length of high crime rates and
- [Vico's Vision of Education: Restoring the Imago Dei](https://patrickhalbrook.com/vicos-vision-of-education/) - Originally Published by FORMA Journal (Winter 2023). The first warning bells against overemphasizing STEM education sounded not in recent years, but over three centuries ago. In 1709, the Italian scholar Giambattista Vico lamented, “The greatest drawback of our educational methods is that we pay an excessive amount of attention to the natural sciences.” By neglecting
- [Learning How to Learn: The Senior Thesis](https://patrickhalbrook.com/learning-how-to-learn-the-senior-thesis/) - Originally Published by The Forum. “The thesis is there to prove that we are no longer just students, absorbing information from other people. In the thesis project, we find our own sources and reach our own conclusions…we truly have to create something.” This, according to one of our graduates, was the highlight of Cary Christian School’s
- [We’re All Muckrakers Now](https://patrickhalbrook.com/were-all-muckrakers-now/) - Originally Published by The Imaginative Conservative. Today, Theodore Roosevelt prompts us to ask the same question he raised over a century ago in his speech “The Man with the Muck-Rake”: How do we devote our attention to society’s problems without allowing them to devour us? Our survival in the Information Age hinges upon on our
- [Interdisciplinary Curriculum](https://patrickhalbrook.com/interdisciplinary-curriculum/) - Interview on the CCS Knights’ Podcast (2022).Most people grow up thinking of subjects in school as being utterly distinct, existing in totally different realms–the way a picky eater tries to avoid letting different foods on his plate touch each other. On this week’s podcast, I got to discuss how this is the wrong approach. There
- [Teaching History Through Masterpieces of Art](https://patrickhalbrook.com/teaching-history-through-masterpieces-of-art/) - Presented at the 2019 ACCS Conference We all want our students to know and to love great works of art, to delight in the beauty of a masterpiece by Raphael or Rembrandt. We also want our students to develop a clear vision of history, understanding the trajectory of Western civilization and the ideas and values
- [Begin with the End in Mind](https://patrickhalbrook.com/begin-with-the-end-in-mind/) - Originally published by The Forum. In The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey wrote that anyone who wants to succeed in an endeavor must “begin with the end in mind.” What then should be the ultimate end, or goal, of education? Today, the answer to this question is far from self-evident, but it is as
- [Are They Ready to Give an Answer?](https://patrickhalbrook.com/are-they-ready-to-give-an-answer/) - Originally published by The Classical Difference and The Forum. But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect. (1 Peter 3:15) Today, there is a tremendous need for young people
- [Knowing God at Harvard](https://patrickhalbrook.com/knowing-god-at-harvard/) - Originally published by The Classical Difference and The Forum. If a high school student asked you to recommend a college where the Bible is faithfully taught, Christian moral principles are held in high esteem, and knowledge of God is understood to be the foundation of all knowledge, what would you suggest? A number of colleges may come
- [The Scopes Trial in American Memory](https://patrickhalbrook.com/the-scopes-trial-in-american-memory/) - Master’s Thesis – North Carolina State University.The 1925 Scopes “Monkey” trial, in which high school teacher John T. Scopes was prosecuted in Dayton, Tennessee for violating the state’s Butler Act forbidding the teaching of human evolution, has been called “the Trial of the Century.” Fundamentalist politician William Jennings Bryan and celebrity defense attorney Clarence Darrow
- ["Inherit the Truth": Revising History at Dayton's Scopes Trial Festival](https://patrickhalbrook.com/inherit-the-truth-revising-history-at-daytons-scopes-trial-festival/) - Presented at the North Carolina Graduate Student History Conference (2012).On March 21, 1925, Tennessee governor Austin Peay signed into law a bill deeming it unlawful for any public school teacher “to teach any theory that denies the story of the divine creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man
- [Whose Children Are They?](https://patrickhalbrook.com/whose-children-are-they/) - Originally published by The Forum. Last year, MSNBC host and Tulane University political science professor Melissa Harris-Perry sparked a controversy when she remarked, “We have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents, or kids belong to their families, and recognize that kids belong to whole communities.” Clarifying her
- [Praying for Student Success](https://patrickhalbrook.com/praying-for-student-success/) - Originally published by The Forum. “Dear Lord: please help my son to make all A’s, ace the SAT, pass his AP exams with flying colors, and get accepted into a prestigious university. Amen.” What do you think of a prayer like this? Would you pray it for your son or daughter? Some might find it
- ["The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis"](https://patrickhalbrook.com/the-year-of-our-lord-1943-christian-humanism-in-an-age-of-crisis/) - If you’re involved in classical Christian education, you’ve probably read Dorothy Sayers’ essay, “The Lost Tools of Learning.” Based on a lecture she delivered at Oxford University in 1947, it is Sayers’ lament over England’s dismal system of education. It is also her proposal to save education by returning to a classical/medieval paradigm of education
- [Albrecht Dürer’s "Knight, Death, & the Devil"](https://patrickhalbrook.com/albrecht-durers-knight-death-the-devil/) - Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) was one of the most versatile artists of the Renaissance and one of the greatest German painters of all time. Most peo­ple today know of him only from his meticulously detailed drawing known as Praying Hands, prints of which are usually seen for sale in a Christian bookstore or hanging on the

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- [Patrick Halbrook](https://patrickhalbrook.com/) - I am a teacher, graphic designer, and writer—and a passionate advocate for classical Christian education. I have worked at Cary Christian School since 2006, teaching a wide variety of courses in history, theology, and rhetoric. I currently direct Cary Christian School’s senior thesis program. On this page you will find resources that I hope other
- [Mortimer Adler's Syntopicon](https://patrickhalbrook.com/syntopicon/) - Mortimer Adler’s Syntopicon organizes the great ideas of civilization with overviews of 102 topics. The book has been available online for some time, and the link below provides links to each topic as a separate PDF to make it easier to access, download, and print. Click to Read (Downloadable PDFs) The 102 topics include:Volume I:
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