Ever wonder if anyone cares more about education than the business of education?
After thirty years of teaching, I can promise that most teachers do. Few teachers work for the money in elementary, junior high, or college. Most are dedicated and work harder than their contract demands.
Teachers and professors face administration that grows bigger every year and has a form for every problem, but no idea how to solve any problem. Students are reduced to “units” or “data points.” Even that might be managed, if the culture had not decided that knowledge and expertise are suspect. We are one of the few nations in history where being bilingual is a disadvantage and where a candidate for President is praised for speaking at a sixth grade level.
Teachers are forced to relate to the students and not the students to the teachers. Pop culture doesn’t encourage the sustained attention span necessary to master deeper level critical thinking skills. Tribalism replaces logic: if he is on our team, then he is right.
So great: another jeremiad against the decline of education.
What are we going to do?
The answer for me has been to rethink education, even classical education. What can we do? We must do away with administration best we can. Everyone teaches and nobody “just” does administration. Every decision is based on what is best for the student’s soul and not what is best for the bottom line. Debt is bad so costs must be kept down. We need a school that educates.
Orthodox Christian belief would function as the center of the project and the Socratic method would push from that center to an investigation of . . . everything. Imagine a community that stretched from preschool through college all working hard together in an intimate community.
We started working on the idea and today we found our home.
Why does this count? Geography matters.
6000 Dale Carnegie Lane Houston Texas
We live there now. It is our home. Orthodox Christians need a home just now as Daesh burns us out of our ancient homeland while the world does nothing but talk. Home is where you can be yourself and invite guests to come and see what it means to be classically Christian. Home is where the pictures on the wall are family. Home is where late night discussion on Plato can continue until we see. . .something. Home is where new plays are written and performed. Home is where sports are not professionalized, but fun. Home is where music is made, not consumed, and prayers are prayed and not banned by the state.
We have found a home.
I am so happy.
Come visit us on the web and at our new home.
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