[Pyro7480]

Archbishop John Michael Miller approaches the altar during the convocation at Thomas Aquinas College welcoming students to the first day of classes on Monday. The college will soon select a new president, only the third since Thomas Aquinas was founded in 1971.

[trisham]

What a beautiful church.

[Pyro7480]

Catholic ping!

[Jacquerie]

The article doesn't mention the careers of graduates, but I suspect they do well in law, polysci and scores of other professions.

[marron]

I’m very impressed by what they do. There are only a few in the world that are doing this, and I think thats tragic.

Study here and you take part in a 3000 year long conversation, and you come out prepared to make a meaningful contribution to the civilization, rather than being merely a consumer and bystander. You may not get all the Halliburton rants that you’d get at State University, but you’ll come away with a real education and a real understanding of the underpinnings of the world.

As I get older, I realize how profoundly ignorant most of the public intellectuals are, and I realize that the traditional university is shamefully unable to educate. Listen to your typical educator opine about anything and you’ll realize that most education is the blind leading the blind. The longer these kids spend under their tutelage the less they know.

I would like to see this model replicated by others who are looking to offer an alternative to the standard university model. We don’t have to simply accept what doesn’t work; we should be building what does.

[iowamark]

When the school was founded, Catholic colleges were disconnecting themselves from the church, said interim president Peter DeLuca, one of the school’s founders. Like secular colleges, they started offering electives, courses in women’s studies and co-ed dorms, straying from traditional Catholic education.

The founders of Thomas Aquinas believed students could arrive at the truth through reason and faith and a fixed curriculum based on books written centuries ago in many cases.

“The notion of Catholic liberal education here is radically different, because it’s based on the notion that the object of education is to understand the order and meaning of the universe,” DeLuca said. “If there is an order, there has to be an orderer. If you understand the order, you can understand something of the orderer.”

[magisterium]

I went out there in 1999 to attend a friend’s graduation. Spent the weekend there. I was completely floored by what I saw! It’s simply “The Best”!

If I could do things over again... (sigh)

[married21]

I like the idea of studying classic Western thought, and I’ve heard wonderful things from people who have been to Aquinas to see the place, but...

What’s up with the dress code? Sounds overly picky and sexist to me.

If the women are supposed to wear skirts, are the men all wearing coat and tie?

Is there a code re: footwear too?

I know a guy who has been there a few times for weekend professional enrichment programs, and he never mentioned anything like this. His daughter considered attending there, and she never mentioned it either.

[TASMANIANRED]

Teaching how to think...excellent.