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From the President
Dear Reader,
Last month, our first cohort of Junior Fellows completed the two year sequence of informal courses in the traditional liberal arts that constituted. This issue of our bulletin features the work of those who participated in the fellowship. Read More
Fruits of the Fellows Formation Program
by Michelle Ferguson
When I applied to the Boethius Institute Fellows Formation program, I knew it would be a challenging but fruitful opportunity. I had been involved in the classical education movement for over twenty years but was aware of many gaps and deficiencies in my own education, so I was excited to deepen my understanding of not only what is meant by “a liberal arts education” in its historic sense, but also to become better educated in the very arts themselves. Read More
A Fellow's Work in Brazil
by Lucas Dos Santos
I wanted to share with you about a course I taught here in Brazil last week. Since last Thursday, I have been in a city in the interior of São Paulo (a 6-hour drive from the capital), teaching intensive teacher training to a group of teachers I have been working with for a long time. Read More
The History of Astronomy: A Project Update
by Joseph Tabenkin
For the past two years, I’ve been quietly working on a project aimed at making science—particularly astronomy—more accessible and teachable, especially for educators who may not have a formal background in the subject. Read More
The Confessions (An Excerpt)
by Augustine
As the day now approached on which she was to depart this life (which day Thou knew, we did not), it fell out — Thou, as I believe, by Your secret ways arranging it — that she and I stood alone, leaning in a certain window, from which the garden of the house we occupied at Ostia could be seen... Read More
Further Enrichment
Currents newsletter - Our friends at Classical Commons do an excellent job of collecting current articles, insights, and resources in classical education. See their recent newsletter here and consider subscribing
Adeodatus Handbook on Catholic Education & Culture - The first volume of the Adeodatus Handbook is now available. It provides inspiration to return to the central vision of Catholic education: an integrated approach to the liberal arts that flows from God’s initiative toward us and is ordered toward eternal union with Him.
The Liberal Arts Renewal in Brazil - To learn more about the revolution in education happening in Brazil, read this article by a Brazilian who has taken his American liberal education back home.
Employment Opportunity
The St. Jerome Institute is excited to announce plans to open a new St. Jerome Institute High School for the 2026-2027 academic year in Northern Virginia! They are looking to hire a Head of School and a Community Engagement Officer. New positions will be regularly added and linked on this page.
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Bulletin Archive
- Educating for Greatness: The Lord of the Rings as Cultural Epic
- Friendship, History, and Tradition: Three Criteria for the Development of the Canon
- Gimli Eulogizes the Glittering Caves
Imagination in the Quadrivium and Literature
- From a Review of A Brief Quadrivium and Teaching the Quadrivium: A Guide for Instructors
- Rediscovering Classic Children’s Literature as an Adult
- Excerpts from Anne of Green Gables
Lincoln and Rhetoric After War
- Through the Lenses of Rhetoric: A Classical Look at Lincoln's Second Inaugural
- The Power of Art: Making the Ordinary Romantic
- Lincoln's Autobiographies
- Teaching Shakespeare to the Young: An Interview with Megan Lindsay
- Providence and The Lord of the Rings
- Literary Taste: How to Form It
- Creativity in STEM and Bill McLean
- The Path Less Traveled: Early Education in the Liberal Arts
- Einstein's Imagination
- Introducing the Boethius Institute
- Machiavelli’s Idealism
- The Consolation of Philosophy Excerpt
Liberal Education and Literature
- Only the Lover Sings: The Secret to Teaching Literature
- On the Liberal Arts in Response to an Article in Principia
- MacDonald on Effect of Science on an Adolescent
- Interview with the producers of Grammar Revolution, an indie documentary
- Interview with Shannon Valenzuela, professor of literature and creative fiction writer
- Miquel Cervantes on creative writing
- Freeing the Mind Through Grammar
- Grammar and Worship
- The Spirit of Mathematics, on the difference between the classical and modern approaches to the study of mathematics
- An interview with William Carey, teacher at Ad Fontes Academy
- Preparing the Next Generation for Wisdom: an essay on the study of history
- An interview with Janice Martinez about her passion for teaching
- A Dangerous Opinion, on the modern distinction between opinion and fact
- An interview with Winston Elliott III, the president of the Free Enterprise Institute, founder of "The Imaginative Conservative," and a teacher at Houston Baptist University
- Dr. Seeley’s experience at the Center for Thomas More Studies annual conference
- An interview with Paul Boyer, an Arizona state senator passionately interested in liberal education