I was talking with a colleague at another Classical Christian school recently and he was bemoaning the truth that many of his parents and even more than a few of his teachers were not able to describe what it is that makes Classical Christian education so very different from all other kinds of education. We discussed several books that marvelously articulate a robust vision of Classical Christian education.     While there are lots of good ones, I still rank Norms and Nobility: A Treatise on Education at the top of the list. I plan on writing a blog in the future simply asking many of the questions asked in this important book. In this article, I will give a few, just a few, of the many deep nuggets in this foundational masterpiece.      The best education is an education that teaches the student to see things as they are, to go right to the point, to disentangle a knotted thread of thought, to detect what is foolishness, and to discard what is irrelevant. It prepares the studen