Posted on 06/08/2018 5:47:36 AM PDT by reaganaut1
This spring, graduates throughout America will exit their institutions with diplomas that signify little about real learning. But Wyoming Catholic College, my institution, is immune to this disconnect.
When 31 students graduated from Wyoming Catholic on May 12th, they held a weighty diploma. Why? Because the college’s core curriculum has sacrificed neither great books nor—and here’s the surprise—Mother Nature.
The goal of a genuine liberal arts education should be to deliver students from false opinions and awaken them to beauty. It is unlikely that this goal can be achieved if a student isn’t immersed in beautiful language, language not inspired by a social agenda but by the wonders of the natural world. An underappreciated victim of political correctness, prose has become as light as the diploma of most degree-granting institutions.
I made this point recently while attending a meeting of academics and entrepreneurs who share a common concern over the health of our culture. One of the panels discussed the state of higher education. The panel lamented that, among other losses, are the study of Latin, the dearth of integrated curricula, and the impoverishment of dialogue (a casualty of technology).
As I listened to the usual litany of higher education’s failure to achieve its proper objectives, I realized that the commitment an educated person must undertake in immersing himself in classic texts is not only rare but undermined by most colleges and universities. Pressures foreign to learning for its own sake dictate admission policies and course requirements.
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Fantastic college! They are a model for what every college should be.
This is what a real education looks like.
It’s not job training, its an education. There are a few other colleges with similar approaches, but sadly, precious few, you can count them on one hand.
I’ve said many times, the best education in the world is four years in the Navy and a set of Harvard Classics ($250 at eBay...)
But better yet would be four years here, followed by four years in the Navy. :)
No Federal Aid will save them some day.
We are experiencing a massive “Education Industrial Complex” bubble, fed by massive spending, and massive debt.
My oldest son has been in contact with Hard Work U in Missouri (College of the Ozarks). His oldest sister got of college debt free and is basically no ones prisoner in her future decisions.
He is trending the same way in his thoughts.
I will not argue and will pay the airfare to get him there.
Our son just graduated from a small private engineering college. A true geek school. I think he only had two fluff classes, fine arts and psychology. In the psych class, he and a buddy spent the entire time playing solitaire using two differing game strategies to see who won the most games. Hundreds of games later, their win loss ratio was almost identical and they both got A’s.
Well, on at least with the statistical bookkeeping used to reach the thesis. I would have to say that their education was actually well played.
It was. His school is pretty no nonsense.
My daughter graduated from Thomas More in Nashua back in 91 before it began to accept GI Bill. MIL was skeptical becausy “no one ever heard of that place” and doubted she could get into grad school from there. Daughter went down to LSU and, indeed, LSU never heard of Thomas More. She was one of about a dozen grads. She gave them some phone numbers and they made some calls. They then asked her where she wanted her reserved parking space. For real.
You get an order of magnitude more out of a university if you go out into the real world first.
Flip the sequence.
My grand-daughter took a campus tour back in October. We were very impressed.
There are two boxes to check. You must be a Christian, and you must have a 3.0 grade average. BUT, the determining factor is a 30 minute conversation with the Admissions Panel. Poise, confidence, and sincerity wins the AP over.
I have nothing against this college - and knew of it before it even opened. I know a few graduates. The one problem I have with the school, however, is that, academically, it is merely a prep school for graduate school. The degree in no way helps you in terms of getting a job. I wish they would institute a system of double degrees so their graduates could get jobs right out of school. The problem there is that their original purpose will be lost.
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