Preparing boys in heart, mind, and body to Carry the Fire.
The Logos Tutoring Program is a three-year, outdoor educational program aimed at giving middle-school boys the foundation they need to become who they are.
“Carry the Fire” comes from Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road,” a keystone book in the foundation of this Program. This short phrase carries the entire novel and carries the heart of our shared work in the Program.
Despite intense suffering, the Fire remains. And it is our job to behold It, cherish It, and pass It on.
This is the work.
Our Focus
Mythological
We are rooted in stories, on which our lives depend.
The Program guides the boys through a robust curriculum of exceptional books, poems, and stories. Together, tutors and boys commit to seeking the truth by cultivating the arts of reading, writing, listening, and speaking through communal inquiry into some of the greatest stories ever told.
Your sons are caught in a web of dark spells, and it is the business of the stories we read and tell together to wake them up.
Agrarian
We are are rooted to our land, our place, on which our lives depend.
The Program is structured in order to afford an opportunity for deep friendships to grow such that, as iron sharpens iron, each boy will sharpen the other. No man is an island; indeed, friendship is one of the greatest gifts a man can receive or give. The Program claims that Love is supreme and therefore seeks to foster a place on Earth where it can flourish.
This cannot be done unless our damaged relationship to the soil is healed.
Monastic
We are rooted to our God, on which our lives, above all else, depend.
The Program believes in the necessity of a whole and healthy body in order for a fully integrated man to emerge. Critical to this are the ascetic virtues of fasting, stillness, quietness, solitude, service, sacrifice, contemplation, humility. These are the best tools available to combat the present enchantments of consumption, waste, excess.
And your sons get steeped in these over their three years in the woods with friends.
Go Deeper
And to go even deeper, see the essay series "Notes from Hillwood" from the Director which delves into the theological and philosophical underpinnings of the Program.
Step away to draw near
TOO MANY BOYS REMAIN BOYS.
“In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.”
- Abolition of Man by CS Lewis
The mission, then, of the Logos Tutoring Program is to partner with parents in order to fashion young men with chests; chests that are filled with the courage needed to live within the truth and the attention needed to love their place and all of its inhabitants.
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
Specialization is for insects.”
from “Time Enough for Love” by Robert Heinlein
How to Join
Logos is not a full-time school. It’s a weekly rhythm of formation for middle-school boys who don’t just need content, but courage.
Built for home-school families.
Twice-weekly sessions all-together outside at Hillwood (Mondays from 11am-4pm and Fridays from 9am-2pm)
Hillwood is located about 30 minutes south of Chattanooga, atop Lookout Mountain, GA.
Weekly one-to-one Tutorials with a tutor in downtown Chattanooga (1 hr).
For middle-school boys ages 11–14 (exceptions considered)
Stories, sweat, and stillness with a small platoon of peers (and mentors who walk alongside them).
Meet the Tutors
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Hunt Davidson
FOUNDER and DIRECTOR
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Colin Stayton
TUTOR
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Chase Waller
TUTOR
Tuition covers only part of the cost to run Logos. The rest depends on a community of mothers, fathers, grandparents, and friends who want to see boys become full persons, not robots.
Sponsor a Student. Change a Generation.
Your gift helps us…
…provide scholarships for families in need.
…build our outdoor classroom.
…train and support our tutors.
…maintain Hillwood, our monastery in the woods.
