St. John's College

[Anonymous]

More importantly, your child has to be a reader. So many kids today (including my own) don't read for pleasure. In order to be successfull in a Great Books school, you have to naturally be a reader or that first homework assignment of 150 pages of philosophy will be a real shock. Also a writer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:More importantly, your child has to be a reader. So many kids today (including my own) don't read for pleasure. In order to be successfull in a Great Books school, you have to naturally be a reader or that first homework assignment of 150 pages of philosophy will be a real shock. Also a writer.

Yes to both. She has written two novels already actually - she could read and write all weekend if we let her.

[Anonymous]

I don't think St. Johns was ever ideologically conservative....

It's probably a very liberal school. The difference is that St. Johnnies won't be trashing the western canon just because it's mostly written by dead white males. It's good old fashioned liberalism.

Anonymous wrote:does the annapolis campus still have a very ideologically conservative streak?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think St. Johns was ever ideologically conservative....

It's probably a very liberal school. The difference is that St. Johnnies won't be trashing the western canon just because it's mostly written by dead white males. It's good old fashioned liberalism.

Anonymous wrote:does the annapolis campus still have a very ideologically conservative streak?

Leo Straus taught there and I think his influence is still felt. I know some very politically and religiously conservative people who went there. Plus the emphasis on "classics" certainly does bring with it a rejection of the multiculturalism ascendant everywhere else.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Strauss