par. 7 "Elite institutions are supposed to provide a humanistic education, but the first principle of humanism is Terence’s: "nothing human is alien to me." The first disadvantage of an elite education is how very much of the human it alienates you from."
This is his problem,"humanism"
Define:
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Philosophy. a variety of ethical theory and practice that emphasizes reason, scientific inquiry, and human fulfillment in the natural world and often rejects the importance of belief in God.
http://www.dictionary.reference.com/search?q=humanism&r
*is the name given to the intellectual, literary, and scientific movement of the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries, a movement which aimed at basing every branch of learning on the literature and culture of classical antiquity.
Believing that a classical training alone could form a perfect man, the Humanists so called themselves in opposition to the Scholastics, and adopted the term humaniora (the humanities) as signifying the scholarship of the ancients.
*http://www.catholic.org/encyclopedia/view.php?id also, for more history of humanism movement
Key word: "alone " a great education without God.
The very reason I am homeschooling. The last thing my Father said before his death "You have to know what you believe in......." Thank You, Daddy.
On this Forum you have two types of Classical education; Humanism and Christian Classical.
Humanities; in , in itself is a grave mistake. This is not my opinion....." it is."
For those of you who , for the lack of a better word, "feel",(mothers intuition) something is missing though you are doing everything ....well.... I know through my very own experience.
The Four Science:
The Natural Sciences
The Humane Sciences
The Philosophical Sciences
The Theological Sciences
link: http://www.circeinstitute.org/definitions%202.shtml
Great Read: http://www.circeinstitute.org/d_principles.shtml