A huge thank you to Diane Ravitch for this thoughtful article! ~ Angelicum Americans may be reading online, but that’s not literature. Without the great authors, where are the great thoughts? Five years ago, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) issued an alarming report called Reading at Risk, which declared that literary reading was [...]
End the University as We Know It By MARK C. TAYLOR GRADUATE education is the Detroit of higher learning. Most graduate programs in American universities produce a product for which there is no market (candidates for teaching positions that do not exist) and develop skills for which there is20diminishing demand (research in subfields within subfields [...]
Editor’s note: Our thanks to John Zmirak for this article. And a special thanks to one of our students, T. C., for sending us these beautiful pictures she took while in Florida. In times of economic slowdown, prices usually fall. Is your home worth as much as it was two years ago? As much as [...]
Below are copies of papers I will deliver later this year at KUL and in Munich (for a meeting with German bishops). They overlap a bit, but I hope you enjoy them….Best wishes, Peter Redpath From Tolerance to Totalitarianism The Contempoary Understanding of Tolerance
One of our parents sent us this article. She said she witnessed children teaching themselves Gaelic in Ireland just by watching the Teletubbies in Gaelic only. The True Origins of Slumdog Millionaire: The Hole-in-the-Wall Project, An Experiment in Slum/Village Education (Free Article) In 1999, a computer expert in India thought up an experiment. His office [...]
Check out the award winning videos below by our Great Books Student, Hunter Gill. Hunter won 3rd place with C-SPAN’s StudentCam 2010 competition. Congratulations on a job well done!
How to Read a Hard Book by Mortimer J. Adler I find that more and more people have an urge to pry into such difficult subjects as science, philosophy, religion, economics and political theory. One clear sign of this is the widespread circulation of the serious books that are now found everywhere in paper-back editions. [...]
We have printed new advertising items for conferences throughout America for this Spring and Summer. Click below to see the new Great Books ad. Great Books Academy Ad 2010
Our free online magazine, Classical Homeschooling has recently been updated to make viewing the articles easier to find and read. Many members of the Great Books Academy have submitted articles to this magazine over the course of the past ten years. To visit the site, please click here. Below are some of the distinguished contributors [...]
