Recovering Lost Paths of Intellectual Growth
The educational systems of the modern world have largely failed in their purpose: namely, to provide students the opportunity not only to gain information or the skills necessary to become a functional employee, but to become a better thinker, a well-rounded person, and a good citizen. A true education, that is, consists in a certain transcendence of the concerns for worldly things: for truth is most certainly a transcendent object.
But how does one recover what our modern education has lost?
Our new series of courses at the Lyceum Institute, the Foundations of Study, seeks to provide this recovery. Each course—included at every level of membership—will provide asynchronous lessons in how to develop the habits necessary for real learning.
These will comprise a range of topics, with special focus being given to the liberal arts and the study of languages, but over time they will grow into other areas as well, including specific entry-level courses for Latin, Greek, philosophy, literature, theology, and more. These courses are meant to be studied asynchronously, but also communally: members are encouraged to discuss them with others to form study groups or hold conversations about the lessons they contain.
Initial Course Listing
More courses to be announced.
