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35 classes · times shown in Eastern
Economics
Eight weeks, both sides, no slogans
Smith, Mises, Hayek and Friedman put directly against Marx, Polanyi, and the modern critics, with students required to state each case in its strongest form.
Mr. Thomas WardNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$8/wk
$48 in total
$19.20 for add’l siblings
Conservative Thought
Burke to Kirk
The first course in the Lyceum’s core sequence: what conservatism has actually claimed, from Burke’s Reflections to Kirk’s canon, critics included.
Dr. Alan HaleNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$10/wk
$70 in total
$28 for add’l siblings
Great Books
The year-long seminar · Ages 15–18
A full year inside Tocqueville: both volumes, forty pages a week, discussed live every Tuesday with twelve other students.
Dr. Alan HaleNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$8/wk
$56 in total
$22.40 for add’l siblings
Great Books
A whole-book seminar
Douglass in his own words: the Narrative read whole, plus the Fourth of July speech, with attention to how a man argued his way into freedom.
Ms. Imani BellNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$8/wk
$56 in total
$22.40 for add’l siblings
American Art
Graphite, watercolor, and the Hudson River School
A real studio class. Students draw and paint the American landscape every single meeting, with Cole, Church and Bierstadt as teachers rather than slides.
Mrs. Claire FinchNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$10/wk
$60 in total
$24 for add’l siblings
Constitution & Founding
The ratification debate, read as a debate
Publius on one side, Brutus and the Federal Farmer on the other, and a class that has to decide for itself who had the better of it.
Mr. James OkadaNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$8/wk
$56 in total
$22.40 for add’l siblings
Great Books
A whole book in six weeks · Three mornings a week
Homer’s Odyssey read whole across one summer, Monday, Wednesday and Friday at the same hour. Meeting three times a week is what makes finishing it possible.
Mr. James OkadaNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$24/wk
$144 in total
$57.60 for add’l siblings
Character & Virtue
What kind of person are you becoming?
A free five-week conversation about courage, temperance, justice and prudence, with short readings and a genuinely honest room.
Ms. Imani BellNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
Free
Great Books
Selections, read closely
A student studying Smith reads Smith. Books I and IV in substantial selection, plus the passages from Moral Sentiments people forget exist.
Mr. Thomas WardNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$8/wk
$56 in total
$22.40 for add’l siblings
Character & Virtue
The first stories that teach · Ages 5–7
Two fables a week, read aloud and then talked about. The oldest way of teaching a child what a person ought to do, and still the best.
Ms. Imani BellNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$6/wk
$42 in total
$16.80 for add’l siblings
Personal Finance
Twice a week · Five weeks · Ages 15–18
Budget, credit, compounding, taxes and insurance in five weeks, Tuesdays and Thursdays. Built to be finished before a first job starts.
Mr. Thomas WardNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$14/wk
$70 in total
$28 for add’l siblings
Conservative Thought
Argument, media, and contemporary conservatism
His intellectual influences, his arguments, his media career, his strengths, his critics, and his place in the conservatism of the last decade.
Dr. Alan HaleNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$8/wk
$48 in total
$19.20 for add’l siblings
Conservative Thought
Campus argument and the young right
The folding table, the microphone, and the queue of students waiting to disagree. What Kirk built on American campuses, why the format spread, and what it is good and bad at.
Dr. Alan HaleNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$8/wk
$48 in total
$19.20 for add’l siblings
Philosophy
Three essays, six weeks
A short, difficult book about objective value, moral education, and what happens to a civilization that stops believing in either.
Ms. Imani BellNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$8/wk
$48 in total
$19.20 for add’l siblings
Great Books
Selected chapters · Ages 12–14
The same book, the same instructor, at a pace a twelve-year-old can genuinely sustain, about fifteen pages a week from selected chapters.
Dr. Alan HaleNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$7/wk
$42 in total
$16.80 for add’l siblings
Art
Look first, then draw · Ages 6–9
A leaf, a shell, a feather, a bird. Mrs. Finch teaches young children to actually look at a thing before they draw it, the one habit that makes every later drawing better.
Mrs. Claire FinchNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$7/wk
$42 in total
$16.80 for add’l siblings
Literature
Read together, out loud · Ages 7–9
The bridge between being read to and reading alone. Three short novels, a few pages aloud each week, and a teacher who will not let a hard word go by.
Ms. Imani BellNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$7/wk
$49 in total
$19.60 for add’l siblings
Logic
Reward-unlockable
Proof-based geometry taught the classical way, and redeemable with the credit earned from the core sequence.
Mr. Thomas WardNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$7/wk
$49 in total
$19.60 for add’l siblings
Western Civilization
Myths told properly · Ages 6–9
Odysseus, Theseus, Perseus, Atalanta. The stories that the whole of Western literature keeps quoting, told to children who are meeting them for the first time.
Dr. Alan HaleNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$6/wk
$36 in total
$14.40 for add’l siblings
Logic
Reward-unlockable
Variables to functions in eight weeks, and fully covered by the credit earned from completing any two core-sequence courses.
Mr. Thomas WardNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$7/wk
$42 in total
$16.80 for add’l siblings
Logic
Arguments, fallacies, and proof
The single most transferable course in the catalog: how to tell a good argument from a bad one, and how to build one that holds.
Mr. Thomas WardNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$7/wk
$42 in total
$10 off · 7 seats left
$16.80 for add’l siblings
Logic
Three short meetings a week · Ages 12–15
The same ground as Logic I, in half-hour meetings three times a week for four weeks. Reasoning is a skill, and skills are built by short frequent practice.
Mr. Thomas WardNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$18/wk
$72 in total
$28.80 for add’l siblings
Literature
Three mornings a week · Ages 6–8
Half an hour of reading aloud together, Monday, Wednesday and Friday at the same time each morning. At this age frequency does more than length.
Mrs. Claire FinchNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$18/wk
$108 in total
$43.20 for add’l siblings
Personal Finance
Before the first paycheck
Budgets, credit, compounding, taxes and insurance, taught by someone who spent six years watching what happens when nobody explains them.
Mr. Thomas WardNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$7/wk
$42 in total
$16.80 for add’l siblings
American Art
Historical painting & presidential portraiture
Three long Saturday sessions on how a nation paints itself (Trumbull, Stuart, Peale) and then students draw a portrait of their own.
Mrs. Claire FinchNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$8/wk
$24 in total
$9.60 for add’l siblings
Literature
One-on-one, scheduled with the instructor
Fifty minutes on one piece of your student’s actual writing, line by line, with a teacher who will be honest about it.
Ms. Imani BellNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$30/wk
Stop any week
$12 for add’l siblings
Rhetoric & Debate
Speaking to persuade
Classical rhetoric applied: students write, deliver, and revise six speeches, and are required once to persuade the room of something they do not believe.
Ms. Imani BellNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$8/wk
$56 in total
$22.40 for add’l siblings
Conservative Thought
Talk radio and American conservatism
What Limbaugh built, why it mattered to a movement, and what his critics, including conservative ones, have said about his methods and his legacy.
Dr. Alan HaleNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$8/wk
$48 in total
$19.20 for add’l siblings
American History
True stories, told simply · Ages 6–9
Eight true stories about Americans who did a hard thing. Washington at Valley Forge, Harriet Tubman on the road at night, the men who would not leave the fire.
Mr. James OkadaNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$6/wk
$42 in total
$16.80 for add’l siblings
Economics
Four weeks, assigned sides
Sides are assigned, not chosen. Students research, brief, and debate the case they were given, then switch and do it again.
Mr. Thomas WardNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$8/wk
$32 in total
$12.80 for add’l siblings
Constitution & Founding
How should a constitution be read?
Scalia and Breyer in their own words, two real cases, and students arguing interpretive method rather than outcomes.
Mr. James OkadaNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$8/wk
$32 in total
$12.80 for add’l siblings
American Civics
Five freedoms, one afternoon
Forty-five words that do an enormous amount of work. One session, the text itself, and three cases that show where the line actually is.
Mr. James OkadaNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$8
$8 in total
$3.20 for add’l siblings
Personal Finance
Saving, spending, giving · Ages 7–9
Three jars, real coins, and the first honest conversation a child has about money. Where it comes from, why it runs out, and what it is for.
Mr. Thomas WardNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$6/wk
$36 in total
$14.40 for add’l siblings
Rhetoric & Debate
Twice a week · Everyone speaks every meeting
A standing practice room, Tuesdays and Thursdays. Every student speaks at every meeting and is critiqued on the spot. Reps are the whole product.
Ms. Imani BellNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$14/wk
$84 in total
$33.60 for add’l siblings
Western Civilization
Greece, Rome, and the making of the West
From the Iliad to the fall of Rome and the Christian centuries after: a full year of the inheritance, taught from sources.
Mr. James OkadaNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$14.86/wk
$104 in total
$41.60 for add’l siblings
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Character, Virtue & the Good Life is five free weeks with a real instructor and a real conversation. It is the course we most want families to try before spending anything.
