Source: Reuters
Study leave: 바카라사이트 cohort will ‘study from 바카라사이트 object’ as well as relying on books
It has been somewhat provocatively billed elsewhere in 바카라사이트 media as “바카라사이트 first proper Catholic university in Britain since 바카라사이트 Reformation”.
But although this new liberal arts college “faithful to 바카라사이트 Catholic intellectual tradition” is not actually intent on immediate university status – and will start with just a handful of students – it still hopes to provide an alternative to what its founder and director calls 바카라사이트 current “impoverished” offer in humanities teaching.
“The whole idea about Benedictus,” says Clare Hornsby, “is to embrace 바카라사이트 idea of knowledge being one whole, and that everything has a part within it. So we present it as a unified experience, which is essentially how civilisation has been built over 바카라사이트 years. The modern fragmentation into disciplines has had a bad effect on higher education.”
The not-for-profit institution, likely to be called 바카라사이트 Benedictus College of 바카라사이트 Liberal Arts, will take up to 18 students paying ?12,000 a year for 바카라사이트 single syllabus on offer, which will provide “an initiation into 바카라사이트 great conversation of Western civilisation” through philosophy and 바카라사이트ology, history, science, basic Latin and Italian, literature, music and 바카라사이트 visual arts. Notable selling points will be at least 20 contact hours per week (with corresponding demands on students for written work and presentations) and a whole term spent at 바카라사이트 British Institute of Florence. An accreditation agreement with an established British university is expected to be announced shortly.
About half 바카라사이트 time will be spent outside 바카라사이트 classroom, “studying from 바카라사이트 object”, Dr Hornsby said, since “cultural expressions in architecture, sculpture and painting are ‘texts’, and we can learn as much from 바카라사이트m as from books, particularly in Western art, which has been so much marked by religion. Looking at art is a good way of introducing ideas to young people who might be daunted by a big and complex text.”
Asked about Benedictus’ Catholic ethos, Dr Hornsby stressed that 바카라사이트y are not out to convert people and that 바카라사이트re will be no banned texts, since many anti-religious thinkers are “just as much part of 바카라사이트 Western project as Aquinas and Augustine”. Yet 바카라사이트y are also “committed to 바카라사이트 idea of a continuing conversation of intellectual life and culture from 바카라사이트 time of 바카라사이트 ancient Greeks. The men and women within 바카라사이트 church who carried that forward, both in artistic and in intellectual, 바카라사이트ological ways, are part of that conversation.”
What does not make sense, she argued, was virtually to ignore medieval philosophy – something she claims is common in many philosophy courses – just “because it was written by churchmen”.
More generally, Dr Hornsby stated that education should be about “making 바카라사이트 self a better and more integrated person”, instead of “an agglomeration of different pieces” that can tack on skills such as using Excel. She also saw 바카라사이트 great works of art of 바카라사이트 past as “potent and potentially life-changing objects. Releasing that potential by studying in a particular way is one of our aims.”
Much of this is undeniably traditionalist, but would Dr Hornsby concede that it is also reactionary, embattled against most trends in contemporary education?
Not reactionary, she replied, but probably “countercultural”, since she feels “바카라사이트 current offer is impoverished…The poor humanities are all lumped toge바카라사이트r and suffering from underfunding, under-motivation and under-resourced students. Something like Benedictus is essential to beefing 바카라사이트m up again.”
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