On September 19 James Matthew Wilson will speak in the Faustina Building auditorium! Here’s a quick article to get your thoughts and questions percolating for that discussion!
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Parents, teens, friends of the community: ask interesting questions, have interesting conversations!
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When you choose private education, you’re doing something beautiful!
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If all the problems around us are opportunities to practice a Catholic approach to the world’s needs, then what are the characteristics of that Catholic way?
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What makes a book worth your while?
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If you had told me I’d ever be reading books about math in my leisure time, I’d have scoffed. No way is Word Girl ever going to get a grip on math! But, I finally realized math actually is the language God seems to speak when he’s creating wonders of nature and laws of physics and music of the planets instead of sitting ‘round heaven’s bonfire telling stories.
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If I could make one book required reading for Catholic parents and educators, it is Stratford Caldecott’s Beauty for Truth’s Sake. In six succinct chapters, he leads readers from the history of education’s disintegration to a vision for its restoration and ‘re-enchantment’.
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This story’s complex themes are resolved with an honesty and transcendent beauty that is profoundly satisfying. I recommend this book very highly, especially for family read-alouds.
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The monster’s failure to be perfectly humanized by his amazing self-education, time spent in nature, and appreciation of beauty and human goodness may be the most human thing about him. If ever a ‘Noble Savage’ (the Romantic conception of a purely natural man) was shown to have an irreparable wound, and a bent toward evil despite his initial ‘innocence,’ and his humanistic education, it is this creature.
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Geometry is about connection to the physical world! It is about constructing lines, triangles, equal angles, polygons and all that! How will a student wonder at the amazing development of man’s mind in correspondence to the actuality of form in the created world if Geometry is presented as an abstract, mental construct?
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Wiker does a great job of placing polarized, knee-jerk, talking point positions in the same space - refusing to be drawn into the poles. As a Catholic should, he looks for the via media - not a compromise, but a higher place where the tension between irreconcilables is resolved. His book is challenging, because it invites us to do the same as we develop our thoughts about the place of the human being in the natural order.
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Education through imitation is an essential part of God’s design for growing in wisdom. We are created as images of God. Therefore, it is when we are imitating the true, good and beautiful that we are becoming what we should be, and that we are truly learning.
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