The Great Tradition continues this summer with ten more weekly discussions.
Great Beginnings introduces students to the legacy of liberal education in the West through reading key texts from the Hebrews, Greeks, and Romans.
A stand-alone or companion course for the student edition of Great Beginnings. This is the first of four courses designed to read through and discuss the more the fifty authors gathered in The Great Tradition. Ideal for individuals, parents and teachers, homeschooling co-ops, and faculty from classical and charter schools. Meets weekly from June 2 to August 11.
Great Beginnings launches the first of four courses dedicated to reading The Great Tradition from cover to cover. We start our conversation with the Hebrews and continue through the ancient Greeks and Romans. Webinars led by Richard Gamble meet once a week from June 1 through August 10. Homeschool, charter, classical, and public high school students, their parents, teachers, and anyone interested in the history of genuine liberal education in the West are welcome to register.
Join Dr. Gamble and co-host Dr. Tom St. Antoine, Director of Honors at Palm Beach Atlantic University, for a conversation about the meaning and purpose of education in the work of Kentucky novelist Wendell Berry. Throughout Berry’s novels and essays, he addresses the tendency of modern education to draw young people away from their homes and communities. Implicitly and explicitly, they are taught that success in life means leaving behind family to find their way in the world “someplace else.” Modern schools, from elementary to higher education, have ceased to belong to the communities they are meant to serve. Berry helps us to reconsider what we love and the kind of education that cultivates proper love for the things to which we belong.
This Saturday Conversation tackles the hard question of what exactly makes a “Great Book” great. Is it fame? Durability over time? The fact that it raises perennial questions? That it is in dialogue with other great books? Dr. Richard Gamble will open this conversation with the story of the publication of Great Books of the Western World in 1952 and the prominent reviewers who doubted the editors’ choices. The criticisms of Gilbert Highet and Jacques Barzun will surprise you.
