DAVID HICKS. How to Resist the Dehumanizing Influences of Our Secular World
Channel: Püha Johannese Kooli konverentsid
Date: 2023-05-05

A talk given at the conference "To Be Human. New Approach to Life and Education in Times of Crisis" in October 2022 in Laulasmaa, Estonia. The conference was organised by the St John's School (Püha Johannese Kool) and the Arvo Pärt Centre.

DAVID HICKS spent thirty years in American independent education, heading Episcopal schools that included St. Mark’s School of Texas in Dallas and St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire. His 1981 book, Norms & Nobility: A Treatise on Education, and his translations of Plutarchs and Marcus Aurelius, together with his brother Scot, made David one of the leading figures in the classical education renewal. Hicks has served on numerous boards worldwide, including the TASIS schools, St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary (New York), and St. Peter’s Monastery Foundation (Montana). He is currently helping to start a new TASIS school in Sintra, Portugal. Hicks and his wife Mary Elizabeth have four grown children and live on a ranch off the grid in Montana.