Book Synopsis
John Schmitt founded Trivium School, the first in what became known as the classical education movement. Having interiorized the classical inheritance, he established a school that embodied what he himself had made his own.
A teacher who presented the high ideal of Beauty, Goodness, and Truth, Schmitt would tell his students they are princes and princesses; heirs of the best that has been thought or said or made. He never tired of saying that beauty is in the thing in front of us—if only we had eyes to see.
Schmitt had eyes to see. He understood that men must not only know the truth and do the good, but learn to delight in the beautiful, and to judge and make beautiful things. This is how he lived, and those who knew him think of this "habit of beauty" when they remember him.
Edited by Samuel Schmitt, with a Forward by Mark Langley and an Introduction by William Schmitt, this collection of essays spans over 35 years of his long career, on the topics of family, education and the arts.