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Classical Catholic Education: Defending and Promoting Life
Sometimes a thought is expressed so eloquently that the only thing left for us to do is to repeat it. Therefore since the Lyceum community is presently attending the Cleveland Right to Life Conference, I thought nothing could be more … Continue reading
Posted in classical education, education, truth for its own sake
Tagged Classical Education, CRTL, liberal education
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Catholic Classical Education Is About Life
Catholic classical education, by the way, is primarily ordered to life. The whole point of classical education is life. To spread life. To increase life. To enrich life. To propagate and widen its extension. To deepen it and strengthen it. … Continue reading
Homerus Omnes Docuit
Every serious discussion about Catholic Liberal Education (which I call “Catholic Classical Education” sheerly for marketing purposes) must perforce dwell at considerable length from time to time on Homer and his works- especially the Iliad and the Odyssey. And this is because, as … Continue reading
Posted in classical education, Literature, Newman, slavery, Wisdom
Tagged Benedict XVI, Democritus, Homer, liberal education, Newman, Polyphemus
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Anaxagoras on Liberal Education
“Other things have a part of everything, but mind is unlimited and self-ruling and is mixed with nothing, but is itself alone by itself….” Anaxagoras, the great pre-Socratic philosopher who, Aristotle says, was like a sober man among drunkards was the … Continue reading
The first Characteristic of Wisdom
Speaking of wisdom, perhaps it would be good to review four characteristics that will help us to distinguish the kind of knowledge that it is. I do but merely transcribe from the fading memory of a certain lecture these humble … Continue reading
The Curse of Liberal Education… Continued
As much as I have always loved liberal education, even I will admit that it does have a fairly obvious downside. I call this downside “the curse of liberal education.” What is this curse? Quite simply, liberal education arouses the … Continue reading
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Tagged grammar, liberal education, modern mind, nouns, verbs
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The phrase “Catholic Education” is a redundancy.
The cultivation of the intellect is a Catholic enterprise. All education, insofar as it is authentic education, is Catholic. And therefore, when we speak about the Catholic principles of education we are, in truth, speaking about nothing other than the … Continue reading
Posted in education, Liberal Arts, Science
Tagged Catholic education, cultivation of the intellect, liberal education
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One World in Common
The waking have one world in common, whereas each sleeper turns away to a private world of his own. I think I need to write a song with that title. Sounds like a perfect song for some sort of world … Continue reading
Posted in classical education, education, Liberal Arts
Tagged Berquist, Heraclitus, liberal education, pre-socratics, sleeping
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Cave Dwellers
All of these people are cave dwellers. They live in the gloomy cave that Socrates describes in Book VII of The Republic (see http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/allegory.html). They are all looking at the wall in front of them upon which there are shadows … Continue reading
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Tagged allegory of the cave, chains, liberal education, Plato, slavery, The Republic
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