Welcome to Season 2! In this episode we give you some updates on what has been happening behind the scenes of The Wonder Years. Patrick shares about what led him to the wonderful world of classical education, what he loves about it, and why we thinks the world is primed to see a major increase in classical schools in the upcoming years. Lastly, we give you a sneak peak of the topics we will be covering in this next season!
Books
Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis
Leisure the Basis of Culture by Josef Pieper
An Experiment in Criticism by C. S. Lewis
Restoration of Christian Culture by John Senior
The Liberal Arts Tradition by Kevin Clark and Ravi Jain
Awakening Wonder: A Classical Guide to Truth, Goodness, and Beauty by Dr. Stephen Turley
Quotes
“We continue to clamour for those very qualities we are rendering impossible. You can hardly open a periodical without coming across the statement that what our civilization needs is more ‘drive’, or dynamism, or self-sacrifice, or ‘creativity’. In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.” (C. S. Lewis, Abolition of Man)
“Christian classical education embodies just the kind of holistic and fully integrated curriculum that a thoroughly Christian uderstanding of human nature demands. It does so, however, only when the seven liberal arts are taken as part of a larger model consisting of what we here term piety, gymnastic, music, liberal arts, philosophy, and theology. This full-orbed education aims at cultivating fully integrated human beings.” (Kevin Clark and Ravi Jain, The Liberal Arts Tradition)
“The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things - not merely industrious, but to love industry - not merely learned, but to love knowledge- not merely pure, but to love purity - not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice.” (John Ruskin, quoted by Dr. Stephen Turley, Classical vs. Modern Education: A Vision from C. S. Lewis)
Recommendations
ClassicalU courses are wonderful resources for parent teachers seeking to grow in their understanding of classical education.
I am a K-8 Music teacher at Covenant School in Huntington, WV and new to the Wonder Years! Thoroughly inspired by the first three episodes (Piety, Gymnastics, and Music) and am wondering if episode 4 will be coming out soon?