with the superficiality of today’s youth; disgusted with the lack of understanding and appreciation for the Great Dialogue; horrified with moral relativism; appalled by the lack of knowledge of geography, history, and the great works of the western world; and encouraged by a large and vocal segment of the community who had little patience with the mediocrity resulting from application of “educationist” practices. The community is a prosperous one, and the school budget has allowed the hiring of excellent faculty, consisting of bright and able young scholars in the arts and sciences from the finest private liberal arts colleges in the United States, as well as a strong cadre of overseas graduates from Oxford, Cambridge, and the University of Heidelberg. Curriculum materials used are books that contain the actual sources, not textbooks, and a substantial collection of excellent editions has been collected. Children in all of the Hutchins elementary schools spend mornings with one hour each in grammar, rhetoric, and dialectic (logic). In the afternoons arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music are studied in rotating four-week blocks throughout the semester. Block examinations over topics clearly outlined in syllabi are administered at the end of the autumn semesters, and a week of comprehensive exams is provided at the end of each school year. Junior high and high school students study a similar curriculum, with more emphasis on discussion and writing related to the subjects studied.