Vico’s Vision of Education: Restoring the Imago Dei
Originally Published by FORMA Journal (Winter 2023). The first warning bells against overemphasizing STEM education sounded not in recent years, but over three centuries ago. In 1709, the Italian scholar Giambattista Vico lamented, “The greatest drawback of our educational methods is that we pay an excessive amount of attention to the natural sciences.” By neglecting […]
We’re All Muckrakers Now
Originally Published by The Imaginative Conservative. Today, Theodore Roosevelt prompts us to ask the same question he raised over a century ago in his speech “The Man with the Muck-Rake”: How do we devote our attention to society’s problems without allowing them to devour us? Our survival in the Information Age hinges upon on our […]
Learning How to Learn: The Senior Thesis
Originally Published by The Forum. “The thesis is there to prove that we are no longer just students, absorbing information from other people. In the thesis project, we find our own sources and reach our own conclusions…we truly have to create something.” This, according to one of our graduates, was the highlight of Cary Christian School’s […]