A New (Old) Way to Teach Teachers

RALEIGH — From the fall of Rome to the early Renaissance, the tools and materials of classical scholarship were preserved in the libraries and monasteries of the Christian church. In the same vein, a North Carolina college growing in the shade of a Baptist seminary is cultivating a new generation of teachers, saturated in classical Western thought and prepared to nurture young scholars in every venue — whether a public high school, an island missionary station, or a suburban kitchen table.