These chat sessions are entirely live, unmoderated, and unregulated. No formal records of the conversations at the chat room are kept so you need not be worried about gaffs or mistakes. The Chat Room is open 24 hours a day and may accomodate any number of simultaneous conversations. It could be a neat place to refine your arguments for more formal postings to the Malaspina Great Ideas Forum . The Great Books Tutorial has been designed to develop Christian minds that will understand and discern the influences that have shaped our culture.
Western history is a tremendously rich saga.
Studying the great books gives us the opportunity to see first hand the ideas that have directed our cultural history. The reading of the great books culminates a good classical education as it requires all the skills that classical education aims to develop in a child. The Great Books Tutorial is offered through the Internet. The tutorial meets for two hours a week and we discuss the readings listed in the curriculum guide. I will act as tutor and guide the discussion so that the necessary fundamentals are understood from each work.