I consider myself an exiled student of the Humanities. After teaching High School English in public education for 10 years, this is what I learned: 1. There are many significant Primary texts of Antiquity to which we were never exposed in public education. 2. Up until the modern age, the Bible was/is a significant thread… Read more

I loved it even though it was… shall we say… ? extreme in some rules. I began to understand not only the Benedictine Monastery, but the roots of all of other ‘separatist’ groups as well. The Order of St. Augustine, the Cappadocian Desert Fathers: Basil and Gregory of Nissa, the Dominicans, the Franciscans, The Carmelites,… Read more

In Books 5-7, in Plato’s Republic, we find 3 metaphors that pretty much sums up the Greek ( Socrates and Plato ) educational philosophy on how to educate the rising generation. They knew— we can’t educate until we properly think through the nature of all reality. My 2 summations don’t give due justice to the… Read more