Dear Parents and Prospective Students:

In our day many doors to authentic Catholic education have been closed or truncated by the pressures of political correctness and the looming “dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize any thing as certain and which has as its highest goal one’s own ego and one’s own desires”- Pope Benedict XVI. The possibility of discovering truth, indeed the very existence of any absolute truth is widely denied. Not in our program! 

The purpose of this online Great Books Program is to open a new door via the internet and distance learning to reveal anew the treasures of reason and truth, Divine revelation and faith, and the beauty of the sublime heritage of Western culture through the study and online discussion of great books.

As Mortimer Adler noted, “if we are going to have general human schooling in this country, it has to be accomplished in the first twelve years of compulsory schooling.” To that end we have developed a new approach to education – offering the collective wisdom of our civilization’s sages in a great books program with live Socratic discussions conducted from homes scattered worldwide, via the internet, to students willing to do the reading and thinking necessary to profit from it, even as young as 14. We have been doing this for 10 years now. Adler was right: it works, if the student will. If you are 14 or older (9th grade or higher) and do not want to waste valuable time waiting for college we invite you to join us.

Sincerely,

Patrick S.J. Carmack