But for how much longer? Is formal schooling the best environment for training a young male into worship? What is the appropriate ritual for initiating a male into adulthood? (Neo-)Confucians would be most sympathetic to the approach taken by Catholic liberal educators. And should such an initiation ritual take place outside the tribe or community to which a young man belongs? Probably not.
A series of ideas: 1. one can do College w/o usury 2. everyone deserves one on one tutorials. 3. knowing the "basement" ideas of a linguistic tradition matters 4. knowing the great diversity of ideas in the world as it is counts. All this is possible! https://t.co/RnQQNcvNQy
Catholics should be preparing instead for a postcarbon world with schools that will teach the appropriate trades and skills, complemented by some sort of liberal arts education, and this should be done at what is no considered the "secondary" level.
Is Live Oak Academy the only school in the area that offers some version of classical education? Are there enough parents (Catholic or otherwise) in the South Bay to financially support a Catholic school offering a classical education? How does one go about organizing for the foundation for such a school? One would think that such an effort would be founded on the contributions of traditional(ist) Catholics, many of whom are already homeschooling. There was a school associated with St. Stephen the Martyr up in Sacramento, but it had to close. Did the parents there start homeschooling or did they send their children to other schools in the area? Trinity Prep would be a bit far...
Nothing has materialized around St. Margaret Mary in Oakland, as far as I know. The Catholics there homeschool or... ? The same is true of OLP.
Given the bad economic times maintaining an independent Catholic classical school may just be too much here. And if it were to attempt to have some sort of edible schoolyard program? One would have to first persuade the parents that that sort of focus on practical living skills is necessary for the times ahead.
"Harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani joins the Academy of Ancient Music to perform Bach's Art of Fugue in a new instrumental arrangement by Esfahani himself. In doing so he revives the informal spirit of Bach's Leipzig coffee house concerts, in which the composer would direct his own band of musicians."
(Access to the audio will be available for 3 more days.)
Natural Science I—Introduction to Natural History Natural Science II: Nature and Motion
Something from the TMC Online Lecture Library: "Every Little Social Commonwealth: Jane Austen’s Vision of Social Order” by Dr. Christopher Blum, Professor of Humanities, at the 2007 President's Council Symposium (November 3, 2007) [mp3]
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
I was looking at the curriculum and reading list for Wyoming Catholic College. The theology practicums are rather interesting; during the sophomore year students read the Carmelite doctors (St. John of the Cross, St. Teresa of Avila, and St. Thérèse of Lisieux). A different way to approach "ascetical and mystical theology"? (Certainly it's different from reading Aumann or Garrigou-Lagrange.)
So the LCs may be making a deal to become a integral part of (or acquire?) Southern Catholic College? What is their brand of a liberal education? I looked quickly at SCC's curriculum -- it seems very similar to that of Christendom, or any other small Catholic liberal arts college. I have heard that the LCs here in the U.S. are receptive towards Aristotelian-Thomism; how is their theologate (at Thornwood?)? Apparently the LCs are operating "as normal," even while the order is being reviewed.
