2016 Workshop Talk | 0:47:58 | All Grade Levels, Virtue, Character, Discipline
Summary
Building on C.S. Lewis’s The Discarded Image, this workshop is intended to invigorate interest in the medieval tradition, by highlighting the importance of the medieval tradition in the modern classroom, particularly as an antidote to the worldview of self. First, the workshop will raise the question of how we approach the medieval world in the classical curriculum and why it seems to be perhaps the least well-tended period in the Western tradition. Second, we will explore what the worldview of self is: a sort of cultural narcissism where the self becomes the basis and arbiter of reality, cutting off the self from any meaningful interaction with objective truth, goodness, and beauty. Finally, the workshop will look at different, practical ways that medieval values can equip us to confront this worldview in both ourselves and our students.
Speaker
Additional Materials
The Association of Classical & Christian Schools presents Repairing the Ruins, the ACCS annual conference, copyright ACCS. You may make additional copies of this recording for use by your school but please do not sell any copies of the recording, or post it on the internet.
Library Home