Tag: modern education
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The Soul of Education, Part 8: Descartes and the Ghost in the Machine
In our ongoing series, we have been working like the Stoic philosopher Athenodorus, following the ghost of our philosophical assumptions about the soul out into the courtyard of historical ideas to discover what must be retained and what must be reburied. So far in our chronological survey we have engaged with the tripartite harmony of…
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Why Classical Education Needs a Theology of Wisdom: A Foundation for Wise Integration in the Modern World
The modern world of education is characterized by the opposites of integration: isolation and reductionism. Colin Gunton, in the 1992 Bampton Lectures at Cambridge, entitled The One, The Three and the Many: God, Creation and the Culture of Modernity, uses the terms, “disengagement” and “fragmentation” to describe the predicament of modernity. The term “disengagement” he…
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The Problem of Scientism in Conventional Education
Scientism is precisely not a focus on the importance of learning all that we can about the natural world in school. This we applaud, and classical education has a lot to tell us about how we can teach our knowledge about nature, our scientia nātūrālis as the medievals would call it, better than we currently…