mythopoeic
03-04-2008, 07:42 PM
Salvete omnes,
I've been interested in a classical education for a long time and started learning Greek and Latin about 5 years ago. I took classes to get up to a high level and am considering grad school in the near future. While the benefits of learning the languages were great (the benefits of Latin in particular have been tremendous), it meant not doing very much reading in the Great Books of Western Literature. This summer I hope to change that and a few friends from church will begin Susan Wise Bauer's Well-Educated Mind curriculum and after that move on to Mortimer Adler's book list. I hope to find encouragement and good ideas from this forum and to contribute to it as much as I can. Perhaps over time this community will grow large and vibrant as many Christians who lament their education will return to an old way and begin repairing their own ruins.
ab imo pectore,
Vilhelmus (Will)
I've been interested in a classical education for a long time and started learning Greek and Latin about 5 years ago. I took classes to get up to a high level and am considering grad school in the near future. While the benefits of learning the languages were great (the benefits of Latin in particular have been tremendous), it meant not doing very much reading in the Great Books of Western Literature. This summer I hope to change that and a few friends from church will begin Susan Wise Bauer's Well-Educated Mind curriculum and after that move on to Mortimer Adler's book list. I hope to find encouragement and good ideas from this forum and to contribute to it as much as I can. Perhaps over time this community will grow large and vibrant as many Christians who lament their education will return to an old way and begin repairing their own ruins.
ab imo pectore,
Vilhelmus (Will)