Carrie Eben, Author at The Imaginative Conservative

About Carrie Eben

Carrie Eben serves as founding Board Vice-Chair, Curriculum Chair and Teacher Mentor at Sager Classical Academy in Siloam Springs, AR. She teaches workshops for administrators, teachers, and parents in both the classical school and homeschool arenas. She is a PhD student at Faulkner University studying Humanities as well as a Circe Institute Master Teacher Apprentice.

Anna Julia Cooper: Uplifting the Oppressed With Liberal Arts Education

By Carrie Eben|2024-08-16T15:30:41-05:00August 16th, 2024|Categories: Classical Education, Education, History, Liberal Arts, Liberal Learning, Timeless Essays|

Anna Julia Cooper passionately defended classical education during the Reconstruction Era when the dilemma of how to educate former slaves arose. Cooper, a former slave herself, preached the virtue of classics and their necessary vitality to the soul. Anna Julia Cooper Why would a Black American female ex-slave revere the wisdom of dead [...]