Tag: education
St. Vincent College chooses Benedictine monk as new president
Latrobe, Pa., Jan 31, 2010 / 03:11 pm (CNA).- St. Vincent College of Latrobe, Pennsylvania, the United States’ oldest Benedictine college, has announced it has chosen as its next president Br. Norman W. Hipps, OSB, a mathematics professor and administrator. Br. Norman, a Benedictine monk, is presently the college’s executive vice president and dean of… Read More ›
The Purpose of Education: True Freedom
The purpose of education is to show us how to define ourselves authentically and spontaneously in relation to our world — not to impose a prefabricated definition of the world, still less an arbitrary definition of ourselves as individuals. The world is made up of the people who are fully alive in it: that is,… Read More ›