How to teach—and learn—like the clearest teacher in history: St.Thomas Aquinas St. Thomas Aquinas is Catholicism’s greatest teacher. His crowning achievement, the Summa Theologiae, was written as an introductory text for his students. But how many realize that his genius for teaching went hand in hand with his technique for learning from his own great teachers, St. Albertus …

This timely document was written to lay out the theological nature of sexuality and the educational rights and responsibilities for the young concerning sex and sexuality. The book also includes the Charter of the Rights of the Family issued by the Holy See in 1983. The document is divided into the following sections: Introduction I. Some Fundamental Principles II. Responsibility in Putting …

Andrew A. Campbell Have you tried to find one book that eplained in simple terms the who, what, why and how of classical education?  Your search is over.  Andrew A. Campbell's new The Latin Centered Curriculum  gives teachers and parents an interesting and easy to read guide to what classical education is, how it came about, and who are its major exponents.  In addition to …

What They're Saying about this book ... "(Kopff's) clean and lively style throughout constitutes a very cogent arguing point for teaching the classical languages again: would that we all wrote so well." — Booklist "Reading E. Christian Kopff's The Devil Knows Latin is like hearing a series of liberal arts lectures from a brilliant, entertaining and deliberately controversial professor." — …

Discussions of educational reform often involve windy talk of a "return to the classics, " but as Tracy Lee Simmons notes, rarely do would-be reformers go so far as to advocate a return to education in the classical languages themselves. In this concise and elegant brief, Simmons traces the historical trajectory of Greek and Latin education, giving especial attention to the crucial importance …

Steve Kellmeyer From parochial schools through Catholic colleges and universities, commentators agree that the Catholic system of education in America has broken down. While there remain a handful of schools which still pass on the Faith, most no longer do. What happened? Using the evidence of Magisterial, European and American history, this book analyzes the historical standards the Catholic …

If you want your kids to learn baseball, you send them to sports camp. If you want them to master a foreign language, you find them a tutor or send them abroad. And if you want them to learn about the riches of Catholic tradition, you send them to the most illustrious Catholic schools in the country. Right? Wrong. Mark Gauvreau Judge, one of the most talented writers to emerge from GenX, takes …

Jenkins shines a light on anti-Catholic sentiment in American society and illuminates its causes, looking closely at gay and feminist anti-Catholicism, anti-Catholic rhetoric and imagery in the media, and the anti-Catholicism of the academic world.

In an examination of contemporary American culture--from literature to popular music--concerned with the restoration of Classical traditions, this work is comprised of a series of essays concerned with the still healthy vitality of America's Classical and Christian traditions, the errors of the current powers that be, and the way to cultural and political restoration. "Whether discussing the …

With humor, lucidity, and unflinching rigor, the acclaimed authors of Who Killed Homer? and Plagues of the Mind unsparingly document the degeneration of a central if beleagured discipline - classics and reveal the root causes of its decline. Hanson, Heath, and Thornton point to academics themselves -their careerist ambitions, incessant self-promotion, and overspecialized scholarship, among …

Mark Gauvreau Judge Judge, one of the most talented writers to emerge from GenX, takes readers through a hilarious, edgy, take-no-prisoners look at his experience in three of the most prestigious Catholic schools in U.S. history.

Henry T. Edmondson III The influence of John Dewey's undeniably pervasive ideas on the course of American education during the last half-century has been celebrated in some quarters and decried in others. But Dewey's writings themselves have not often been analyzed in a sustained way. In John Dewey and the Decline of American Education , Hank Edmondson takes up that task. He begins with an …

By Fr. James V. Schall S.J. In The Life of the Mind , Georgetown University's James V. Schall takes up the task of reminding us that, as human beings, we naturally take special delight and pleasure in simply knowing.  Because we have not only bodies but also minds, we are built to know what is.  In this volume, Schall, author of On the Unseriousness of Human Affairs , among many …

Get help in choosing a faithfully Catholic college - be able to separate the wheat from the chaff! The Newman Guide to Choosing a Catholic College is the first college guide to show students where they can learn and grow in a genuine Catholic environment without the nonsense that has overtaken even some of the most well-known Catholic universities. It includes detailed profiles of more than …

Frustrated with the continuing educational crisis of our time, concerned parents, teachers, and students sense that true reform requires more than innovative classroom technology, standardized tests, or skills training. An older tradition—the Great Tradition—of education in the West is waiting to be heard. Since antiquity, the Great Tradition has defined education first and …

Confronting error and falsehood in today's Catholic education environment. Modern American Catholic education has been inexorably impacted by Thomas Groome's Shared Christian Praxis and Elizabeth Shussler-Fiorenza's Feminist Theology of Liberation . Their writings and theories have affected many aspects of Catholic education and impeded the proper implementation of the Cathechism of the …

This is the college guide that changed college guides! This revised and updated edition of ISI's critically acclaimed Choosing the Right College is perfect for those students—and their parents—who want an independent, truthful assessment of what is really happening at 134 of the nation's top schools. Unlike other college guides, which provide irrelevant statistics and …