Benjamin Beier, Author at The Imaginative Conservative

About Benjamin Beier

Benjamin V. Beier, Ph. D. is Chairman and Associate Professor of Education at Hillsdale College. He has published articles on Shakespeare, Thomas More, and related topics, and is currently co-authoring a book on Aristotelian logic.

Raising the Bar, Serving Others

By Benjamin Beier|2025-06-05T16:39:44-05:00June 5th, 2025|Categories: Classical Education, Education, Graduation|

Like the person who ascends out of Plato’s cave, you too are now obliged to go back down and help others to ascend, to draw others from shadows and images into the truth. Who raises the bar? The servant of others. Many have raised it for you, but you are challenged to go forth to [...]

Five Defenses of Classical Education in a Time of Civil Unrest

By Benjamin Beier|2020-09-23T15:11:06-05:00September 23rd, 2020|Categories: Civil Society, Classical Education, Education, Liberal Learning|

Classical education is in a unique position to acknowledge in humility that every person is a sinner, and that some people and institutions in the West have been monstrously evil. Yet the Western heritage includes that which can never itself be complicit in evil: the true and the good, those inexhaustible resources that set us [...]