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Western Catholic Reporter: From a Tutorial to an Academy |
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Newman's Idea of A University |
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Written by John Paul Meenan, Newman Society, Spring 2001 Address
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Wednesday, 11 April 2001 |
There is a crisis in our universities. Many of us have heard of it, many even experienced it. Large class sizes, little emphasis on individual instruction, too much emphasis on the skill of taking multiple-choice examinations and the handing on of facts (sometimes dubiously verified), no systematic structuring of the curriculum or tying one subject to another, to say nothing of the absence of any reference to God or religion in class and outside of class, are at least some of the problems facing our modern campuses. Yet universities continue to be amongst the most successful institutions in the modern world. Are universities, whose mission, the Holy Father has declared concerns "the very future of humanity,"(1) doing the job they are meant to do? Are they fulfilling their mandate, as universities?
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Off To A Great Start |
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Written by Seat of Wisdom Newsletter, Winter 2000–2001 John Paul Meenan
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Friday, 09 February 2001 |
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Welcome to Our Lady Seat of Wisdom Academy, Canada's newest venture in Catholic higher education. The Academy is a one-year preparatory liberal arts college, offering a grounding in the perennial principles of Catholic truth. Our year-long program provides students with a solid and invaluable introduction to higher studies, with which students can approach any discipline — any walk of life- with confidence and assurance in the truth. We have come a long way since last year, when our pilot project, the Mater Ecclesiae Study Centre, was meeting in living rooms and lofts. We now have two buildings for our use. |
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Educational Foundations: A Look at the Curriculum |
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Written by Seat of Wisdom Newsletter, Winter 2000–2001, Scott Nicholson
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Tuesday, 09 January 2001 |
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More than forty years ago, in a series of lectures delivered at the Catholic University of Lublin, Auxiliary Bishop of Cracow Karol Wojtyla taught: "This is the purpose of education, both the education of children and the mutual education of adults: seeking true ends, that is, real goods, as the ends of our actions, finding ways to attain them, and showing these ways to others." Our Lady Seat of Wisdom Academy is developing a curriculum that satisfies the purpose of education envisioned by the tradition of the Church, which the future Pope John Paul II succinctly summarized. |
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Building a New Academy |
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Written by Catholic Insight, John Paul Meenan
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Wednesday, 31 May 2000 |
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In the April 1999 issue of Catholic Insight, mention was made of a bold and, what may seem to some, impossible, venture in Catholic education in rural Ontario. Our Lady Seat of Wisdom Academy, which began as an optimistic dream in the minds of a few Catholics in the Combermere area, is now taking firm shape as a reality. It is to become a liberal arts college, loyal to the magisterium, to the thought of Saint Thomas Aquinas and the perennial philosophy he personifies, and to the moral, spiritual and intellectual formation of young Catholics in the tradition of the Church, as called for by all the popes of the last century, but perhaps most insistently by our Holy Father, John Paul II. |
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Shane Westin, a three-year program graduate who recently finished his fourth year at the Franciscan University in Steubenville, shares with us his OLSWA experience.
