Education demodernized
Learn here the higher essentials once taught at every college but that today, astonishingly, are scarcely taught anywhere.
proprietor | Edward Tingley, PhD
Abandoned learning
The point of learning? To actually learn what we are & how the world is, & what this dual reality is telling us (it is revealing the divine order of God … say ancient prophets & pagan philosophers & Christian thinkers).
So that we don’t waste our one precious & fleeting life.
But it has been a long time since colleges & universities have believed in any such thing.
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Whatever was committed to writing as worthy of being remembered”
saint augustine
Recovering Lost Goods
There is no reason the abandoned schoolhouse cannot be restored. You do not need a system of education for that: you need a teacher & a student.
The teacher is in. Come be the student.
The liberal arts can be taught as they once were, to everyone who values their substance. Sample the fruit here.
About the courses
The lectures in these courses are full versions of the lectures I gave in the 15 years I taught at Augustine College, Ottawa. They are developed beyond the state in which they were given at the College & have each been enhanced for online consumption.
sound
lectures steadily improved for 15 years by a phd in philosophy
accurate
focused on the careful study of central texts by great thinkers
accessible
a map to the texts, which are clarified without academic jargon & applied to life
meaningful
texts chosen because they give direction in living our lives, which is why they exist
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What excuse can be made for that learning, which, robbing us of the true fruits of the tree of life, leaves us nothing to feed upon, but the dry dust of words?”
william law
Cost
Though equal in substance to university courses, enrolment is now fifty percent free.
I am looking for a way to make this school accessible to as many people as possible, free if at all possible. If you have ideas or suggestions please get in touch.
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The tiresome thing about ignorance is precisely this, that no one who does not believe that he needs a thing desires what he does not believe that he needs”
SOCRATES
