Laura Harris came to education the way good things come — slowly, through love, and by many roads at once. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Indiana University, where the ancient questions of Beauty, Truth, and Goodness first took hold of her imagination and never let go.
She returned to Indiana University for a Master of Library Science, drawn to the intersection of books and people — to the belief that the right story, placed in the right hands at the right moment, can change a life. For fifteen years she served as a professional librarian across the suburban counties of Indianapolis, counseling hundreds of families in literacy, education, and learning.
It was during those years among families — and during twenty years of homeschooling her own children — that Laura's understanding of classical education moved from theory to lived practice. She saw how children actually learn: not through abstraction first, but through story; not through testing, but through narration and imitation; not through institutional efficiency, but through the patient, attentive rhythm of a home where books are read aloud and questions are welcomed.
Laura is currently a doctoral candidate in Theology, pursuing her PhD with a focus on the ordering of the transcendentals — particularly the proposal that Beauty precedes Truth and Goodness in the child's encounter with God.
She built McConkey-Harris Classical School not from a business plan but from a life — from a father who read poetry because he loved it, from a mother who made a home that felt like heaven, from a husband and partner of forty-five years whose family name is inscribed beside hers on the school because it is the work of both their lives.
