Greg Dolan

Ok, this is incredible. A new classical Catholic high school just opened in Fairfax County (St. Jerome Institute) — this is what a serious education looks like: – Phones collected at the door – Every class is a seminar discussion – 15-20 students seated facing one another – Art and music are required, NOT elective – Math class teaches "the intrinsic beauty of math" – Entire curriculum is integrated: philosophical and theological questioning in every class And here's the literature section of the reading list: 9th grade (Exodus & Odyssey): – Homer, Odyssey – Genesis – Plato, Euthyphro and Apology – Virgil, Aeneid – Exodus – Beowulf – Song of Roland – Gospel of Luke – Plato, Phaedo and Crito – Acts of the Apostles – Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea – Wilder, Our Town 10th grade (God & Nature): – Creation myths – Plato, Timaeus and Symposium – Aristotle, De Anima – Plotinus – Augustine, Gregory of Nyssa, Bonaventure, Aquinas – Sir Gawain and the Green Knight – Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Descartes, Meditations – Bacon, Newton, Darwin – Berry, Wilder, Tolkien – Tocqueville – Benedict XVI – Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop – Faulkner, The Bear 11th grade (God & the Human Person): – Sophocles, Oedipus Rex – Plato, Symposium – Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics – Augustine, Confessions – Shakespeare, Twelfth Night and King Lear – Hobbes, Leviathan – Swift, A Modest Proposal – Austen, Pride and Prejudice – Shelley, Frankenstein – Hopkins – O’Connor – Martin Luther King Jr. – Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment – John Paul II 12th grade (God & Society): – Plato, Republic – Dante, The Divine Comedy – Aristotle, Politics – Augustine, City of God – Aquinas, De Regno – Natural and human law – Machiavelli, Hobbes – Locke, Rousseau – Marx and Engels – Dignitatis Humanae, Evangelium Vitae, Centesimus Annus – John Courtney Murray – Leviticus – Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov – The Declaration of Independence – The Constitution – The Federalist Papers "They gain an in-depth knowledge of Western civilization from Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem through England and the founding of our own country."