Why "Reactionary"?

Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.

     - C.S. Lewis


In the last couple of centuries, the West has:

    - overthrown every earthly authority previously respected, from kings to priests to parents.
    - discarded the morality and way of life that humans have guided humans since they became humans as "outmoded" and "out of touch".
    - worked to dissolve every societal institution that tied people together: marriage, parent-child bonds, church, community, and nation.
    - made Man (sorry, Human) their God.
    - decided that, unlike every other group of people, they have no reason to protect their culture, their homelands, or their children's future. They go beyond transcending these, as the "noble savages" do; people is simply irrelevant to the enlightened Westerner.

We do not need to make more of such "progress"; nor do we need to "conserve" the mess we've made so far. Progressivism and Conservatism are destructive. Reaction is a maligned, and not wholly adequate term (perhaps "traditionalism" is better), but it gets the point across quite nicely.

How Should We Educate Our Children?

If education is "the leading of human souls to what is best", then we should hope that those doing the leading know their way. Sometimes the popular guides have it mostly right; sometimes they are woefully wrong. For a while now they've been tramping triumphantly in the wrong direction.

This blog will focus on providing learning material to parents who wish to give their children a good (reactionary) education. I love education and have amassed a great deal of it for when I have children of my own to teach, and would like to ease the burden of coming up with such material for those who do not find it a leisure activity.