I used to pass by there and would stop for Shakespeare plays in their outdoor theatre on Sunday evenings. I recall a lot of grout oriented poetry on the walls of the bathroom there.
Hopefully St Augustine and St Thomas Aquinas are part of the liturature mix.
Our founding fathers just read the books.
For those of us who will not besmudge our computer screens with the New Yuk Slimes, what is the name of this institute of higher learning.
Very interesting. Thanks for posting.
The NYT writer just had to include, “The degree to which “the program” omits the intellectual contributions of women and people of color troubles me.”
Not to worry, most 8th graders today probably know as much or more about Harriet Tubman as they do about George Washington. Most probably could tell you nothing about James Madison or Alexander Hamilton.
Had a friend who went there, thought he was going to change the world. He had a great party as the going away present, spoke heroically and left. After a year he bailed, went back to a major college and wanted to make the football team. Pfff......
This college is a leftist ‘s dream.
I like it. If you had to wear a toga to philosophy class, that would really be the deal.
In a different way I believe, a classical liberal education such as at St. Johns is every bit a brain twister as a STEM pathway. STEM focuses on some combination of 1) rote memorization of mass amounts detail then recalling later to recombine into new or novel ways or 2) works within the laws and techniques of mathematics to some end. To some large degree, I describe this as learning what to think.
From a different direction, I believe the classical education teaches how to think. See how this is different? What to think versus how to think. It took me 20 odd years of professional STEM experience albet with a non-traditional breadth of exposures to many situations to expand to how to think.
This is what university will return to after the massive debt-fed education-industrial-political complex finally deflates.
Hutchins made the news quite often from his perch in his think tank in Santa Barbara, populated with leftists who were intent on exposing conservatives as neo-fascists. Goldwater and Reagan were two of their favorite targets in op-eds dutifully published by editors of like mind such as Tom Braden of the Oceanside Blade-Tribune. (Braden, an ex-CIA operative who was for a time Pat Buchanan's sparring partner on CNN's Firing Line program, was the prototypical liberal newspaper publisher who would echo whatever tripe was put out by leftist think tanks.)
Not saying that studying the classics is another step closer to the totalitarian abyss, but I'm curious as to why there appears to be so much interest among those on the academic left.
Certain founders of this great nation read Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas and European history (some in the original Latin and Greek) and were for the most part defenders of man's natural rights and wary of an all-powerful central government. Until recently, it was normal for Republican candidates for office to occasionally refer in their campaigns to the signers of the Declaration of Independence and/or the Constitution as models they wished to follow in their political careers.
So where do current candidates go these days to get this kind of education? St. John's? Or are there more that offer this kind of study?
What the hell is banh mi?