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Martin Cothran covered this topic a while back. Here is one of his well-researched, but brief, articles about it: https://www.memoriapress.com/articles/classical-education-puritans/ And here is an interesting recent article, not about the Puritans per se, but about the old question of whether we Christians ought to read pagan literature.  The Puritans thought that some was worth reading and some wasn't.  The question I ask when choosing literature is not whether there are bad ideas in the books, but why.  So my kids might read the Communist Manifesto, but not Harry Potter.  Other parents might make different choices, but we have to pray and think about it. https://scholegroups.com/why-read-pagan-literature/ American Christianity took an anti-intellectual turn during the early 20th Century and followed progressives down the modern education path, until the 1950s desegregation of public schools.  Then groups like Abeka and Bob Jones University started their own Christian

My definition of a classical education is:  The Liberal Arts and the Humanities. Nowadays "humanism" usually means a human-centered approach to solving problems.  It's a worldview in which the human is substituted for the divine - just pagan naval-gazing. But before the modern era, and especially before the "enlightenment," humanism certainly did not mean what it does now. As we look back in the history of education, we should have a common understanding of the term "humanism." Some people confuse it with Roman Catholic philosophy during the Renaissance era.  Others mistake it for Protestant Reformed theology at the end of the Renaissance and call it the "New Learning."  But humanism wasn't either of those. A humanist was one who studied the humanities.  His use and enjoyment of the humanities was humanism.  During the 15th through 17th centuries, humanists had all sorts of theological views.  The Renaissance was an explosion of h