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Category Archives: classical education
Three Reasons Why Catholic Classical Education is a Tough Sell
Genuine Catholic education appears to be a product which doesn’t sell itself. That was a bit of a surprise for me when I was a freshly minted teacher. Naturally, I thought that an excellent school would flourish immediately. Word about the … Continue reading
How to Choose the Right Catholic High School for Your Children
I suppose twenty-eight years involved in small Catholic schools qualifies me as an experienced educator. Or at least it has provided me with plenty of experience in listening to parents and their children on the subject of “How to Choose … Continue reading
Posted in classical education, education, catholic education
Tagged Cassandra, Electives, Herodotus, High School, Xerxes
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Pagan Greeks Saw Easter Coming 500 Years Before It Happened!
Sorrow! Sorrow! Very few days pass but that we don’t hear of some new sorrow. A job is lost, a troubled marriage…a near relation passes away, serious illness falls, dashing promises and hopes…a calamity strikes affecting the national interest…a friend loses his … Continue reading
Posted in aeschylus, Carl Schmitt, classical education, Easter, Fine Arts, Uncategorized
Tagged aeschylus, Easter, Herodotus, Life, Newman, poetry
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The Samaritan Woman at Jacob’s Well: Who Were Those Five Husbands?
The Gospel for the third Sunday of Lent offers a special little gem for the classically minded church-goer. As Jesus is speaking to the Samaritan woman at Jacob’s Well, He tells her that the water in the well will only bring … Continue reading
Posted in Augustine, Catena Aurea, classical education, Uncategorized
Tagged Gary Michuta, jacob's well, samaritan woman
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Lent and Liberal Learning
Some things are never out of season and liberal education is one of them. As a matter of fact the Holy season of Lent provides the Christian with an opportunity to focus on the first thing that anyone should know about … Continue reading
Posted in classical education, Fine Arts, Liberal Arts, liberal education, Uncategorized
Tagged Duane Berquist, Lent, slavery
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Open Letter to My Daughter(s)
Is there anyone who was not profoundly touched by the flurry of open letters that loving parents wrote to their daughters concerning the recent election of our new president? (for example here and here and here) Ms. Sallie Krawcheck consoles her daughter after the … Continue reading
Learning in Election Time
In a sermon delivered in the Fall of 1939 titled Learning in Wartime , C.S. Lewis asserts, every Christian who comes to a university must at all times face a question compared with which the questions raised by the war are … Continue reading
Posted in catholic education, classical education, Liberal Arts, Uncategorized
Tagged Archimedes, C.S.Lewis, Election, Learning in Wartime, Thomas More, Wolfe
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The Purpose of Classical Education – An Unintended Dialogue
Every so often we need to remind ourselves of the point of a classical education. As readers of these pages know, the phrase classical education is just a clever way to cloak our real meaning which is Liberal Education. But present fashions dictate … Continue reading
Posted in classical education, discussion, Liberal Arts, Newman, Shakespeare, truth for its own sake
Tagged Classical Education, Liberal Arts, Newman
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Reading Dickens-Dombey and Son
I finally finished my summer reading, Dombey and Son, clocking in at 1040 pages! That is, if you read the Penguin Classics edition. The Wordsworth Edition that I read was only 808 pages, but if felt like 1040 pages. Don’t get me wrong. … Continue reading
Posted in classical education, Dickens, Homer Sightings, Literature
Tagged Classical Education, Democritus, Dickens, Dombey and Son
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