As the weather warms up, we are watching the snow and ice on our ponds, streams, and roads melt away. Last month, right before the rink closed, we took the entire school ice skating (at a “real rink”). You will notice that this is a very practical lesson in physics! Here are a few pictures.
For students in grades seven through twelve, the first half of the school year carries the excitement (and anxiety!) of getting ready for the year’s Science Fair. Each science project includes a research paper, experiment, oral presentation, and presentation board upon which each student is graded (usually this is most of the second quarter science [...]
February 11, 2010 Dear Mr. President, I am a nineteen-year-old citizen who is imploring you to note an issue that is holding back this great nation from reaching our fullest potential. I can’t tell you how glad I am to hear you say that you look at man-made climate change with scientific consideration. With scientific [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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