For Teachers and Students
A high schooler’s thoughts on classical education and college.
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Ten Things You Must Avoid in Picking a College
College as I once knew it is dying. Schools all over the country face declining enrollments, government intrusion, and loss of vision. This can be confusing for parents, like me, who have children getting ready for school. Like many parents, I am asking, Does my daughter need college still? Is it worth the investment? Not
Words of Wisdom: Dr. Christopher Nelson
President of St. John’s College discusses the future of the American university, the ideal St. John’s student, and his favorite reads of 2014.
Flawed From the Start: The President’s Plan for Higher Ed
President Obama has been a strong supporter of programs designed to help families pay for a college education, most notably through the Pell Grant and the Opportunity Tax Credit. However, in the summer of 2013, President Obama announced a new “Plan to Make College More Affordable.“ In his speech announcing the plan, the president affirmed
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Backtracking to Forge Ahead – Part 3
Editor’s Note: Joshua Sturgill has returned to college eighteen years after trying the first time. He’s blogging his way through this first semester. I’ve decided that the only way I can make sense of my return to college as a return to the heart is to think of it as a fairytale. A simple description
Thinking Christianly about the Liberal Arts
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem? – Tertullian What has Ingeld to do with Christ? -Alcuin (when catching some monks reading Beowulf) What has Horace to do with the Psalter? Or Virgil with the Gospel? Or Cicero the Apostle? – Jerome The Incarnation calls us to the things of this world. So when we
What Nemo Said
“I don’t know how all this talk about truth, goodness, and beauty are going to get a kid into college.” I heard somewhere that a board member of a Christian classical school uttered these words. I chooose to regard them as apocryphal and thus to set them up as a dummy to respond to. Here’s
Backtracking to Forge Ahead – Part 1
I’m 36 and I’ve just applied for the undergrad program at St. John’s College. Besides the humor of being categorized “non-traditional”, my age is also symbolic: 36 is twice 18, the age of my soon-to-be fellow students. I will be attending college with kids who were born the year I graduated from high school. The