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About marklangley

Most recently the founding Headmaster of Our Lady of Walsingham Academy in Colorado Springs (see www. OLWclassical.org), former headmaster and Academic Dean at The Lyceum (a school he founded in 2003, see theLyceum.org) Mark loves sacred music and Gregorian Chant and singing with his lovely wife, Stephanie, and their children.

The Brain: Organ of Thought? A Dialogue Part 1

Posted on October 21, 2013 by marklangley

  Langley: Greetings Socrates, what a pleasure to meet you so early in the  morning here in the Agora! Socrates: Why bless my soul! Is it morning already? I suppose I have lost my sense of time. As a matter of fact … Continue reading →

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Don’t Be A Barbarian

Posted on October 13, 2013 by marklangley

Liberal education is the ordinary process by which ladies and gentlemen are formed. Without it one will always remain a barbarian. Now if you are a barbarian please don’t take this as a put down. I am proud to count barbarians … Continue reading →

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The Common Core…Uh-Oh….

Posted on September 26, 2013 by marklangley

Suddenly any jocose banter about the Common Core (aka ObamaCore) doesn’t seem so amusing anymore. As a matter of fact, after seeing this video of a friendly looking and intelligent fellow American being abruptly and unceremoniously dragged out of a public meeting, … Continue reading →

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Ohioans Against The Common Core

Posted on September 15, 2013 by marklangley

Just as the fifth century B.C. Persian invasion united all Greece against Xerxes and his army of slaves, so too the Common Core- or ObamaCore- appears to be uniting good people throughout the land against the servile educational standards proposed by … Continue reading →

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Why Go To College?

Posted on September 10, 2013 by marklangley

A new academic year has sprung upon us, and those of us who are involved in the world of secondary education have once again taken up the arguably impossible attempt to teach students. But what is it all for? College? Why … Continue reading →

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No Royal Road

Posted on September 1, 2013 by marklangley

We remain convinced that The Lyceum and the many (growing and increasing!) new small Catholic independent schools across the nation are, indeed, part of the solution to the ongoing crisis in education. It is ironic that the solution these little schools … Continue reading →

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All Hail the Common Core!

Posted on August 27, 2013 by marklangley

Amazing! I thought that public schools could not adopt a curriculum that is any more utilitarian than they already have! But thanks to the new almost universally adopted so-called “Common Core” we can look forward to an even more pragmatic … Continue reading →

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“Everyone Can Be And Should Be Given a Liberal Education”

Posted on August 17, 2013 by marklangley

As I was searching for a particular statement that Mortimer Adler made somewhere I found an interesting article that he wrote for the University of Chicago Magazine in 1945. I still cannot find the particular thing that he said that … Continue reading →

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The Lyceum Around the Town

Posted on August 12, 2013 by marklangley

The other day I had the pleasure of driving down to Canton, Ohio at the invitation of the local radio station “Living Bread Radio.” My friend, colleague and director of the prestigious Lyceum Schola Cantorum , James Flood was there as well. You … Continue reading →

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The Elective System in Education: A Denial That Nature Acts For An End.

Posted on August 10, 2013 by marklangley

As we have argued elsewhere the question “does nature act for an end” is of the utmost significance for everybody. Of the important lessons to be learned from a Catholic classical education, that nature acts for an end, is perhaps the … Continue reading →

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