There is no asbestos in the buildings used by Immaculate Heart of Mary School at 95 Fay Martin Road, Richmond, NH. Anyone wishing to see documentation of this fact should speak to Sister Maria Philomena.
We are getting another foot (and a half?) of snow . . . And I just told someone the other day that it felt like April!
This would be a good time to introduce you to our latest guests. Behind the Sisters’ refectory is a little deck and garden the Brothers built for us years ago. [...]
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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Also tagged: Brother Francis, Catholic, Descartes, education, Fakhri Maluf, mathematics, philosophy, Plato, Pythagoras, quantity, Russell, space, Spinoza, St. Thomas Aquinas, Thales, truth, Whitehead
MATHEMATICS AND CHRISTIAN EDUCATION (part one of two)
by Brother Francis Maluf, M.I.C.M.
[Editor's note: This article was originally published in From The Housetops back in the 1940's. Brother Francis has been teaching mathematics longer than any subject (for more than eighty years); he certainly knows its uses. However, in this article, Brother points out what happens [...]
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, philosophy, plane geometry, Plato, poetry, reading, scholastic philosophy, school, 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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Educational Philosophy § School Life
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Also tagged: Brother Francis, Dialogues of Plato, education, Fakhri Maluf, knowledge, liberal education, machine, man, nature, philosophy, Plato, rational, school, skill, teacher, training, truth, vocational
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, philosophy, Physics, Politics, Rational Psychology, scientism, Theology
by Brother Francis Maluf, M.I.C.M.
All these sciences, in so far as they are sciences, that is, in so far as they possess any explanatory value, presuppose the superior philosophic sciences of logic, cosmology, rational psychology and ethics. And these philosophic sciences, in turn, presuppose ontology or general metaphysics. Ontology is the absolute summit of natural [...]
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Posted 20 November 2008
† Sister Maria Philomena, M.I.C.M.
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Also tagged: Brother Francis, Cosmology, education, Ethics, Fakhri Maluf, Logic, Ontology, philosophy, Rational Psychology, scientism
by Brother Francis Maluf, M.I.C.M.
But now, having seen some of the dangers of scientism, let us proceed to study the nature of science. This will lead us to determine whether philosophy is a science. The Greeks and the scholastics considered philosophy the science par excellence , but to the modern mind, this view cannot [...]
by Brother Francis Maluf, M.I.C.M.
But common-sense knowledge has its limitations, as the man of common sense very well knows. By mere common sense, no airplane can be constructed, and no medical operation can be performed. When the man of common sense needs to build a bridge, he does not go to another man of common [...]
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