Florida continues to shake up the educational status quo. On Friday, the state is expected to approve a new college entrance exam, the classical learning test, or CLT. If the exam is approved, state universities will accept it alongside the SAT and the ACT in their admissions process.
a new college entrance exam, the classical learning test, or CLT. If the exam is approved, state universities will accept it alongside the SAT and the ACT in their admissions process.
A growing place for the CLT, then, could greatly affect curricula throughout Florida and the country. That change could support a return to studying the kind of classic texts that this exam tends to assign. Some teachers, students, and schools might start assigning Shakespeare, Cicero, and like texts to try and score better on the new test. Even if that is their sole motive, it will expose them to great works of literature, philosophy, and theology they might not otherwise encounter.
Serious reading about these matters from the classic canon of thinkers would push education toward cultivating students as human beings. It would make our learning less focused on only job skills or on trendy moralistic tropes. Instead, it would force teachers and students to ask what permanent truths and wise particular applications best form the human mind and heart. It would make us consider not just what is effective or efficient but what is noble and true.
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