by Dr. Gaelan Gilbert | Feb 21, 2020 | Headmaster Articles
[Post #4 on Guroian, Tending the Heart of Virtue, chapters 2-4] In our last post on Guroian’s great book, we discussed the difference between virtues and values, and how classical stories narrate the transformation of the human person through the acquisition and...
by Dr. Gaelan Gilbert | Feb 12, 2020 | Headmaster Articles
[Post #3 on Guroian’s Tending the Heart of Virtue] In our last post on Guroian’s Tending the Heart of Virtue, we discussed some of the ways in which stories appeal to and influence the moral imagination of children. Guroian elaborates further on this in chapter 1:...
by Dr. Gaelan Gilbert | Feb 4, 2020 | Headmaster Articles
[Post #2 on Vigen Guroian’s Tending the Heart of Virtue] In the last reflection on Vigen Guroian’s Tending the Heart of Virtue, we talked about the importance of clear moral direction for children through rules, principles, and expectations. Classical educators...
by Dr. Gaelan Gilbert | Jan 31, 2020 | Headmaster Articles
Yesterday (Jan 30) in the Orthodox Church we celebrated a beautiful Divine Liturgy for the feast of the Three Holy Hierarchs, three scholar-saints from the 4th and early 5th centuries of the Church: St Basil the Great, St Gregory Nazianzus (aka the Theologian), and St...
by Dr. Gaelan Gilbert | Jan 28, 2020 | Headmaster Articles
Over the past few months, CSA teachers have been reading a book together: Vigen Guroian’s Tending the Heart of Virtue: How Classic Stories Awaken a Child’s Moral Imagination. This was also the book selected for the parent evenings. The author, Dr Guroian, is an...
by Dr. Gaelan Gilbert | Jan 24, 2020 | Headmaster Articles
Our theme for the 2019-20 school year here at CSA is “The 2 Books of God: Scripture and Nature.” The first is self-evident; all Christians accept the Holy Scriptures as the inspired word of God. The Nicene Creed teaches that the Holy Spirit “spoke by the Prophets,”...
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