Should We Teach Speech In A Classical Christian Education Curriculum?

Classical Et Cetera · Mar 23, 2023 · 38m

As homeschooling and classical education continue to gain popularity, it's important to delineate the significant difference between The Rhetoric Stage and whatever speech and debate program is being taught in public schools. In today's episode, Shane Saxon and the team at Memoria Press discuss why we don't have a speech program in our classical Christian education curriculum and why we would rather focus our efforts on developing students through the stages of Logic, Composition, and Rhetoric. We also talk about some the criticism that a homeschool or classical classroom might face when they…