Category Archives: education

Hesiod And Classical Catholic Education

Posted on March 2, 2014 by marklangley

The classical Catholic educator is always interested in forming his students in the things of nature so that they might be better disposed for the things of grace. Grace builds on nature and nature is dispositive to grace. It is therefore the task … Continue reading →

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“Make Your House Fair” By A Catholic Liberal Education!

Posted on December 28, 2013 by marklangley

Christmastide provides us with an excellent opportunity to reflect on many things surrounding the birth of Our Lord not the least of which is Catholic Liberal Education. It is, of course, through education that the mind is disposed towards grace. … Continue reading →

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Pagan Literature: The Milk of Catholic Liberal Education

Posted on December 10, 2013 by marklangley

For whereas for the time you ought to be masters, you have need to be taught again what are the first elements of the words of God: and you are become such as have need of milk, and not of … Continue reading →

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The Elective System in Education:”You Cannot Train Everybody For Everything”

Posted on November 24, 2013 by marklangley

Whatever one may say about our twenty-eighth president’s views about The United States role as promoter of democracy and capitalism and interventionism throughout the world, I think we have to give him full-hearted applause for his views on authentic liberal … 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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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 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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Six Characteristics By Which To Identify The Wisest Man

Posted on August 2, 2013 by marklangley

As Heraclitus said (and we never tire of repeating) “If you do not expect the unexpected you will never find it, for it is hard to find and inaccessible.” This is certainly a wise statement. A clear example of its … Continue reading →

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