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Wednesday, July 22, 2009
 

7:30PM  - 9:30 PM

Registration Desk Open - Embassy Suites, Concord, NC

Reception: Embassy Suites, Concord, NC

Thursday, July 23, 2009

TBD

Breakfast Available at the Embassy Suites

TBD

Shuttle Leaves Embassy Suites for Piedmont Renaissance Center

7:45 am

Registration Desk Opens at Piedmont Renaissance Center

8:15-
9:45 am

Reading:

Exordium I:
 Welcome and Commencement:

A Contemplation of Nature

Andrew Kern

Reading:

10:00 -
10:50 am

Reading:

Pillar I: Reflections on the Definition of Classical Education
John Hodges
 

Time

Workshop I Workshop II Workshop III Colloquy A Colloquy B

11:10 am - Noon

Leigh Bortins James Daniels Andrew Pudewa John Hodges Martin Cothran
Life Interrupted: The Nature of Home-Directed Education The nature of
the Liberal Arts
Teaching Boys and Other Kids Who Would Rather be Playing in Forts "If I find in myself
a desire which no
experience in this
world can satisfy,
the most probable
explanation is that
I was made for an-
other world"
CS Lewis
Education is implication. It is not the thing you say which children respect; ... It is the things you assume that really sink into them. It is the things you forget even to teach that they learn.
GK Chesterton

12:00 Lunch

  John Hodges Vigen Guroian Leah Lutz Leigh Bortins Martin Cothran

1:30 -2:20 pm

Naturalism and the Arts The Office of Childhood The Nature of Thought: Teaching in the Classical Mimetic Mode "To organize society merely on the principle of private profit leads to a rejection of nature."
TS Eliot
In denying the holiness of the body and of the so-called "physical reality" of the world modern Christianity has cut off itself from both nature and culture. Wendell Berry

2:45-
4:00 pm


Poetic Knowledge Panel
William Wordsworth: The World is Too Much With Us
John Hodges, Vigen Guroian, Andrew Kern
 

Roundtable Discussions

4:00-
5:00 pm

  Andrew Kern Martin Cothran  
  How does your view of nature affect how you conduct assessment at your school? How does your view of nature affect how you teach science?  

 

 

Friday – July 24

8:15am -
8:45am

Reading:

Exordium II:
The Liturgy of Creation: The Melody of Faith
Dr. Vigen Guroian
 

10:00am-
10:50am

Reading:
Pillar II:
The Principles of Classical Education:
Nature: The Principle of Principles
Martin Cothran
 

Time

         

11:10am -
Noon

Andrew Pudewa Martin Cothran

 

Andrew Kern

James Daniels

Nature Deficit Disorder The Agrarian Nature of Education and Why it Matters in the Classroom or Home   "The law of nature being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God Himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other."

William Blackstone

The tractors came ... Our minds received the revolution of engines, our will stretched toward the numb endurance of metal. And that old speech by which we magnified our flesh in other flesh fell dead in our mouths."
Wendell Berry

NOON

Lunch

1:30pm -
2:20pm 

James Daniels Andrew Kern John Hodges Martin Cothran

 

The Incarnation of Christ and its Implications for Teaching The Impact of Dewey, Darwin, and Descartes The Nature of the Arts and their Place in the Curriculum "We all have naturalism in our bones and even conversion does not at once work the infection out of our system"

CS Lewis
 

2:40pm – 3:30pm

Martin Cothran

 

Karen and
Andrew Kern

 

Andrew Pudewa

Vigen Guroian

Are Science and Religion Incompatible

  Cultivating the Moral Imagination

"The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man."

Anon Amos

"Nature hates calculators."

6:00pm –8:00pm

Paideia Prize Giving Banquet

Banquet Program

Presentation of The Russell Kirk Paideia Prize for Lifetime Contribution
to Classical Education

Acceptance Address: Dr. Marcus and Laura Berquist
 

  Saturday – July 25

7:00am

Hot Breakfast Available
At the Embassy Suites

8:15am -
9:45am

Reading Psalm

Exordium III:
The Nature of Education
James Daniels

           

10:00am -
10:50am

Leah Lutz Debbie Harris Andrew Kern

James Daniels

John Hodges

Integration; Imitation; Contemplation:
The Natural Order of the Curriculum
Natures' Five Great Truths:
God's Revelation Through Nature as a Tool in the Classroom
The Canons of Rhetoric:
The Deep Logic of the Language Arts
"Because God created the natural... it demands our reverence."

CS Lewis

Can There Be a Sacramental View of Nature?

11:10am  -
12:30pm

Reading: Psalm 133

Commencement:
A Contemplation of Nature II
Andrew Kern

12:30

Lunch and Closing Benediction

 

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