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Toward a Deeper Understanding of the Powers of Life

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 [...]

Posted 06 December 2009 † Sister Maria Philomena, M.I.C.M. § Educational Philosophy § Fathers § History § Mothers § Religion § School Life § Sisters § Society ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , , ,

The Christian Training of Children – Combating Pride

Little Book of Instructions for Christian Mothers [continued] (from Mother Love – A Manual for Christian Mothers – by Rev. Pius Franciscus, O.M.Cap., 1926) On the Christian Training of Children Chapter VI. – How the Christian Mother Should Combat Pride in Her Child. In the last two chapters I have briefly pointed out how a [...]

Posted 19 March 2009 † Sister Maria Philomena, M.I.C.M. § Educational Philosophy § Fathers § General Pedagogy § Mothers § Religion ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Mathematics and Christian Education – Part Two

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. [...]

Posted 19 December 2008 † Sister Maria Philomena, M.I.C.M. § Educational Philosophy ‡ Comments (0) ° 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: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,