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.
Read MoreChesterton was ‘spherical’ in more than the obvious sense. To be spherical is to move freely in the vast sphere of your own being. This is the quality of being at ease with oneself that Josef Pieper (in Leisure, the Basis of Culture) called true leisure.
Read MoreJoin Internationally acclaimed author and native Englishman, Joseph Pearce, on Thursday, September 30 at 7:30 pm at Chesterton Academy of St. Philip Neri for a talk on “The Evangelizing Power of Beauty: Converting the Culture.”
Read MoreFor the drama club, we will have bi-weekly meetings in the evening and will use that time to learn basic theater concepts, play theater games, have short lessons and get to know each other. A few weeks into the semester, I will be casting for The Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
Read MoreThrough all my experiences and travels, one thing has become clear to me: we must prepare our children better for the culture that awaits them. The environment that will confront our sons and daughters is incredibly hostile, much more so than when I was younger, just ten to fifteen years ago. And after my experience at KU, I am convinced that we need to be laying firmer foundations at an earlier age. We must reach our children in junior high and high school and provide the ‘solid food’ of our intellectual heritage, as Bishop Barron is constantly saying.
Read MoreA Christian education is a human education, for a Christian is, in the end, a fully human man: “a man alive!” (St. Irenaeus).
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