Before Canada went insane they built some of the most beautiful churches on earth. 🧵
Notre Dame Basilica is located in the historic district of Old Montreal.
Basilica of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré
St. Mary's Basilica (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
Night scene of St. Joseph's Oratory in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
St. Peter's Cathedral Basilica, London Ontario
I hope to visit all of these beautiful churches before the Trudeau administration allows them to be burned to the ground like 33 other churches in Canada since 2021.
Let’s raise awareness before they are gone!!
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In 1987 American academia was rocked by the release of The Closing of The American Mind.
Bloom was the first to say out-loud what many already knew.
10 chilling quotes from The Closing of the American Mind. 🧵
1) We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.
2) Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise----as priests, prophets or philosophers are wise. Specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.
Converted into a prison during the French Revolution, it underwent a magnificent restoration in the late 19th century.
Victor Hugo once said that Mont-Saint-Michel is to France what the Pyramids are to Egypt.
3. Sénanque Abbey, France
Lavender cultivation by the monks of Sénanque not only supports their livelihood but also transforms the abbey’s surroundings into a sublime landscape.
Five books that have been especially impactful for me in developing a love for classical education. 🧵
1) The Abolition of Man
1) The basic purpose for a why we educate has dramatically changed and what we have replaced the ancient telos with may unravel civilization itself. As soon as I finished reading The Abolition of Man I started over and read it again. This is a must read.
2) The Lost Tools of Learning is not a book. It is less than 30 pages and came from a speech Dorothy Sayers gave at Oxford in 1947. It would be difficult to exaggerate the impact it has had on the contemporary classical education movement.
Summer reading from Naples Classical, a Hillsdale affiliated K-12. This is what is what a serious K-12 education looks like 🧵
Kindergarten
•Make Way for Ducklings, Robert McKloskey
•Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes
•When We Were Very Young, A.A. Milne
•William Steig Books
First Grade
•The Nutcracker
•Encyclopedia Brown
•The Sword in the Tree, Clyde Robert Bulla
•Paddington Bear, Michael Bond
•Now We Are Six, A.A. Milne
Second Grade
•Little House Series, Laura Ingalls Wilder
•Stuart Little, E.B. White
•The Mouse and the Motorcycle, Beverly Cleary
•Roald Dahl Books
•The Thirteen Clocks, James Thurber
•Snow Treasure, Marie McSwigan