The Sisters are taking evening classes in Philosophy, going through Brother Francis’ Philosophia Perrenis lectures on tape with the assistance of a tutor-at-a-distance (using a speaker phone). We are almost to the end of the course on Cosmology, and there is never a lecture that doesn’t touch on something we can use in the classroom. [...]
Our Lord Himself is the Educator par excellence and in the Great Commission, which was His last directions to the apostles before His ascension, He gave His Mystical Body a teaching mission: “Going, therefore, teach ye all nations, baptizing them in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. [...]
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Posted 07 December 2009
† Sister Maria Philomena, M.I.C.M.
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Toward a Deeper Understanding of the Powers of Life as They Transcend the Material: The Acquisition of Wisdom and the Transmission of Culture
by Sister Maria Philomena, M.I.C.M.
[This talk was given at the 2009 SBC Conference, October 31, 2009. It was very well received (with a standing ovation). What is posted here are my notes from [...]
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Posted 06 December 2009
† Sister Maria Philomena, M.I.C.M.
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Our superior and beloved teacher, Brother Francis, went to his reward yesterday morning. It was the feast of Saint Lawrence Justinian and a First Saturday (dedicated to making reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary). You can Brother Andre Marie’s brief comments, get information on the wake and funeral, and read Brother’s biography here.
Brother Francis [...]
MATHEMATICS AND CHRISTIAN EDUCATION (part two of two)
by Brother Francis Maluf, M.I.C.M.
Now in an attempt to determine the influence of mathematics on the mind of a Christian, it would be folly to ignore the fact that after twenty centuries of Christian living, it is impossible to name one single patron saint for mathematics. There are [...]
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Posted 19 December 2008
† Sister Maria Philomena, M.I.C.M.
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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 within its comprehension [...]
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Posted 03 December 2008
† Sister Maria Philomena, M.I.C.M.
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Also tagged: Astronomy, beauty, Brother Francis, dialectics, Dialogues of Plato, education, experience, Fakhri Maluf, Greek mythology, gymanstics, harmonies, knowledge, liberal education, mathematics, Muse, music, nature, plane geometry, Plato, poetry, reading, scholastic philosophy, school, science, solid geometry, teacher, truth, world, writing
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 call liberal education. [...]
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Posted 02 December 2008
† Sister Maria Philomena, M.I.C.M.
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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 is Education
Plato conceived [...]
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Posted 01 December 2008
† Sister Maria Philomena, M.I.C.M.
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Also tagged: angel, Brother Francis, Dialogues of Plato, education, Fakhri Maluf, immortal soul, knowledge, liberal education, machine, man, nature, Plato, rational, school, teacher, training
by Gary Potter
October 14th, 2008
[Editor's note: I thought that this article by Mr. Potter, originally published on Catholicism.org, was a very pertinent and readable discussion of happiness and culture. As you may remember from our definitions, our work as educators is to transmit culture. What culture do we want to transmit? Mr. Potter has some [...]
by Brother Francis Maluf, M.I.C.M.
Put in the language of philosophy, this difference between philosophy and the sciences can be expressed in the following terms: philosophy seeks the ultimate explanation, while science is satisfied with the proximate causes of things.
Now as far as the mind is concerned, proximate explanation is really no explanation at all. [...]
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Posted 21 November 2008
† Sister Maria Philomena, M.I.C.M.
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Also tagged: Arithmetic, Astronomy, Biology, Brother Francis, Chemistry, Cosmology, Economics, education, Ethics, Fakhri Maluf, Geometry, Logic, Ontology, Physics, Politics, Rational Psychology, science, scientism, Theology
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