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Graduating Class of 2009 – Michael Bryan

[I first saw this speech when Michael presented it to me -- a week before graduation -- in an almost-polished form. What a surprise it was! This topic was not what I was expecting. Sr. M. Ph.] Good afternoon, Sister Marie Therese, Sister Maria Philomena, Mr. McManus, Mama, Papa, Brothers, Sisters, family, friends, and fellow [...]

Posted 29 June 2009 † Sister Maria Philomena, M.I.C.M. § General Pedagogy § School Life § Society ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , , , ,

Plato and Liberal Education – Part Three

by Brother Francis Maluf, M.I.C.M. Plato and Liberal Education III. The Epochs in Plato’s Educational System The key for Plato’s system of education is the Greek word μουσικε (sounds like “musikay”) which has survived in our modern languages in such words as “music” and “museum”. To the Greeks the term had a wider signification, including [...]

Posted 03 December 2008 † Sister Maria Philomena, M.I.C.M. § Educational Philosophy ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Plato and Liberal Education – Part Two

by Brother Francis Maluf, M.I.C.M. Plato and Liberal Education II. What is Liberal Education? We are used to distinguishing between two kinds of education: liberal and vocational. But Plato, while recognizing the need of developing the practical arts and professions, reserved the term “education”, at least in its absolute unrestricted sense, to what we would [...]

Posted 02 December 2008 † Sister Maria Philomena, M.I.C.M. § Educational Philosophy § School Life ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Plato and Liberal Education – Part One

by Brother Francis Maluf, M.I.C.M. [Editor's note: This article was originally published in From the Housetops in 1946. It is one of the most important summaries of our educational apostolate. The article is also included in the notes accompanying the course on Logic in Brother's lectures on Philosophia Perennis.] Plato and Liberal Education I. What [...]

Posted 01 December 2008 † Sister Maria Philomena, M.I.C.M. § Educational Philosophy ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,