Well, we’re back from the road trip, in need of a vacation from our vacation. A good part of that time, I couldn’t get on the internet, which was kind of a refreshing vacation in itself. Tomorrow we play the other role, the one we’ve been inflicting on our relatives, as we host friends visiting us from Germany. The good old summertime.
Anyway, we had a good time, with an interesting conference on classical and Lutheran education at Concordia, Missouri. I hadn’t realized that St. Paul High School, like other synodical institutions including Concordia University Wisconsin where I used to teach, was a gymnasium (the six year classical school invented by Melanchthon). In the 1970’s, these were turned into four year colleges, except for St. Paul, which kept the high school part but dropped the two years of college. (Germany still has the institution of the gymnasium, and they are excellent schools. In fact, the German couple who will be visiting us tomorrow are teachers in one.)
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