by office | Dec 20, 2018 | Archives, Member School Content, Reading Room
The first thing one notices about St. Thomas More Academy is the joyful atmosphere. This is not an institution, but a community. From the fire pit, to the chicken coop and organic garden, and especially to the beautiful chapel now under renovation, there is a sense of...
by office | Jul 25, 2018 | Archives, Member School Content, Reading Room
In the cultural wasteland of the ’70s, where peace and love had degenerated into sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll, precious few lights beckoned to youth who met license, pornography, and drugs everywhere. Yet Providence did not wholly abandon us. From time to time, I...
by office | Jul 25, 2018 | Archives, Member School Content, Reading Room
For classical educators, developing the human person is the primary goal, and the cultural treasures of the past are the principal means to that goal. Making the thoughts, words, stories and beauty of Christian civilization a living part of students gives them...
by office | Jul 25, 2018 | Archives, Reading Room
By Daniel Coupland What makes a good teacher? The answer to this question depends in part upon the mission and purpose of the school at which the teacher works. When we talk about the notion of good in connection to teaching, we need to think about whether the...
by office | Jul 13, 2018 | Archives, Member School Content, Reading Room
“Too late have I loved Thee, O Beauty, ever ancient, ever new!” St. Augustine was in his forties by the time he penned this personal lament. As readers of the Confessions know (and the Confessions has been a universal must-read for 1600 years), Augustine wasted...
by office | Jul 11, 2018 | Archives, Reading Room
St. Jerome Academy in Maryland has become an inspiration to schools that want to offer thoroughly Catholic education. The K-8 parish school was fighting to stay alive in 2009 when a group of parents and parishioners proposed a return to a classical liberal arts...
