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To: Tax-chick; BlackElk

Mr. Elk, what say ye? The school in question would not be expressly Catholic, but I can promise you that the students involved would read Augustine and Aquinas. =]


630 posted on 11/29/2006 5:30:32 AM PST by Oberon (What does it take to make government shrink?)
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To: Oberon
I looked at both websites. The Trivium is highly favored among Catholic alternative (non-diocesan) schools and is, as I understand it, the ancient Catholic form of education but it may also go back to righteous pagans such as Aristotle.

Those of us who are involved in Roman Catholic alternative education of a classical sort root very hard for the success of our Evangelical brothers and sisters in Christ in establishing such academies as you linked and as you propose.

While we certainly disagree as to about 5% of theology (albeit an important 5%), we agree on so very much of Christian morality, the evils of public education and of some private or parochial education, the insipid culture of academic mediocrity/incompetence or worse that is the hallmark of gummint edumakashun, the fact that gummint skewels exist largely (according to Horace Mann and John Dewey who are the evangelists of leftist brainwashing posing as education in gummint skewels) to homogenize students in mandatory gummint skewels to be kneejerk leftist robots, all at the expense of taxpayers (with guns to their heads) who DESPISE what is taught at gummint skewels.

Promise me also that the students will learn diligently the languages of Latin and Greek, that they will be required to write essays daily and research papers periodically, that they will use Saxon Math and quality texts from ABEKA or other qualified reformed sources for history and literature, that they will study Jonathan Edwards' brilliant 18th Century sermon: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and his participation in the First Great Awakening (a born-again one) as our Jesuits taught us with approval back wheen the Jesuits were still Catholic, that the kids will be competently trained to slay the SAT and ACT exams, that you will accept all well-behaved students whose parents and selves adhere to your religious standards without academic cherry-picking and that you will advertise relentlessly each and every academic success so that the public will know that their gummint skewels deserve not taxes but extinction and I will be a happy man.

We Catholics need you and, believe it or not, you need us in this fight. The Lubavitcher Chassidic Jews in the Northeast and the Satmar Chassidic Jews (both groups ultraorthodox) are also building their own high quality schools because they too are fed up with incompetent secularist gummint skewels. We Catholics and reformed Christians can fight along side one another on 95% of what we believe while agreeing to respectfully disagree on the other 5%, while educating ALL of our kids to levels of competence not seen in mere gummint skewels in generations. We can also ally with those Jews and with people of other faiths on matters of quality education.

God bless you and yours in all of your efforts. That's what I say!

645 posted on 11/29/2006 7:55:54 AM PST by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline of the Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Club)
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