Right-wingers, much like H.P Lovecraft are afraid of Non-Euclidean shapes.
I’m pretty sure Thomas “It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another’s property in a case of extreme need: Because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need.” Aquinas would’ve probably taken his work to his grave if he saw what people repping his name were doing.
Are they learning to be a 14th century bureaucrat or something? Wtf are these skills, why does it look like an education for fancy young lads who will inherit daddy’s land?
Pretty much. Like if you told me someone was going to make a conservative university I’d imagine a lot of it would be trades and stem. Instead, it’s for fancy boys from 1869.
this is what wealthy private conservative Catholic universities are like. It’s for when you’re from a wealthy Catholic family (tuition is $31k per year with private admissions) and you don’t want your kid learning anything other than social etiquette and networking with other fancy rich Catholics. No one going to Thomas Aquinas College needs to study trades or stem or really anything of modern intellectual value because they have parents who are loaded. They’re all going to work at their dad’s construction company or law firm or whatever after university.
I went to a much less wealthy public university whose main degree plan was petroleum engineering and that’s where the most conservative students were, but they were all either evangelicals or not religious.
Fun story: so the petroleum engineering students all had to take geology and apparently young earth creationism was so rampant among the students that one of the professors set up every exam to be basically impossible to pass unless you answered in the affirmative, multiple times, that the Earth is 4.54 billion years old. And apparently that would weed out at least 10 students every year.
That’s very funny. Literally every scientific discipline should have an equivalent.
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paying $50,000 for a 150 year out of date education to own the libs
These are the people telling you that college doesn’t teach you anything useful
You save a lot on textbooks when everything is in the public domain.
I was gonna say, this seems like shit you could learn from torrented The Teaching Company lectures.
You can self teach pretty much everything taught in college.
Specifically, its $31k per year for tuition, plus other fees
Marx: Capital, Communist Manifesto, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts, German Ideology
Cultural Marxists have infiltrated Thomas Aquinas College smfh
Theory? Studied.
I love how hard sciences is just anything before 1848 lol
with each one contradicted by a scholar rightly forgotten to time
There’s more Marx on there than you’ll get at most universities lmaooo
That’s a lot of Marx.
Joining the school and developing all of science past 1920 for my capstone as a bit.
A lot of these topics are part of the standard high school curriculum. They’re teaching Mendel at the senior undergraduate level
I would be so pissed off if I had to wait until junior year to learn differential calculus
Hopefully none of these students had aspirations to engineering.
or geometry as a freshman
There’s something ironic about a modern person’s constructed idea of an old school education avoiding teaching postmodernism
Everything else aside that is some shitty bio textbooks.
Galen will literally not teach you a single useful things on actual matters of science.
And while medicine owes a lot to Harvey, the man didn’t know what a capillary was because how the fuck would he. Like not to shit on De Motu Cordis, but the parts of his thesis that are correct you shouldn’t have left high school not knowing.
Same goes for Mendel.
De Koennick may be good I guess, I wouldn’t know. But it appears to not even be a book, but a chapter in a book that isn’t biology because it’s a theologian writing a philosophy book.
It looks like they just added random “classic” texts and sprinkled in catholicism when appropriate. So you have Mendel rather than Darwin.
I mean, they just namedrop random mathematicians but somehow skipped out on Gauss and Euler. These students will somehow graduate knowing about general relativity but not know trigonometry or linear algebra.
Also, they completely skip out on chemistry and pretend quantum physics doesn’t exist. I guess science can’t explain how things work at a molecular and atomic level. Anything smaller than a blood cell is just a big mystery. Stuff just happens in accordance with God’s will.
Or they’re lowkey advertising to people worried about Judenphysik corrupting their youth
Oh yeah no this is hard catholic nonsense. You’re wanking off medieval natural philosophy, you have an optics reading list, and you don’t have any fucking Alhazen? An scholastic would punch you.
I think we had like 2 classes on Mendel when we were 12.
Did you do punnett squares?
Sure
Guy loved his legumes
So do we all
ive never heard of this school, but judging from the…curriculum, i suppose one could call it, i have to assume this is a school for fundamentalist evangelical homeschooled freaks whose parents told them they were really smart because they were really good at rote memorization and also good at doing tricks/rattling off memorized rhetoric/formal logic on command for the adults their parents wanted to suck up to. (source: is me i was the homeschooled freak lmao. i was incredibly bad at rhetoric/logic tho bc i did not care and thought it was boring)
Looks like it is probably a Catholic school. It’s why it has so much academic scholarship (see Senior Year curriculum) built on top of Saints Augustine and Aquinas (see years 1-3 curriculum).
I think I’ve read at least half of these things and I’m a fucking idiot. “Serious undergraduate education” yeah no this would be a terrible education even if you’re going for a degree in something like theology or classical studies or something. How would these courses last a whole year? Time to study atomic theory let me break out the Aristotle lmao
Also I think there are zero women authors listed in all of this. The closest is probably how the Watson & Crick paper has Rosalind Franklin as a coauthor.
Women are a postmodern invention
Lacan proved that Women dont exist in 1970
Halfway through reading this, I conviced myself this was a weird/advanced high school curriculum, cause that’s the only way this sort of made sense. You can’t learn shit from a lot of the classic papers because they are either a terrible writer or you have no context for what they are talking about, because you are not from 1674.
So it’s just a surface-level overview of the most prominent European thinkers? Do they teach any useful skills?
apparently it costs $43,700.00 per year to get this wonderful education
I believe it’s called a classical education and its focus is on sort of self improvement through thought and thinking about thinking. An education in learning kind of idea.
Any small liberal arts college I can think of has the same basic educational philosophy. My own was Congregationalist founded which varies in that the idea was self driven education wherein we’d study what we thought was worthwhile not a pre-set list. But even then fundamentally it was an education to build a learning foundation.
With that in mind all of these texts are clearly aimed at that goal. I get that seeing St. Augustine on the science list with “a literal meaning of genesis” is jarring, but Augustine didn’t mean literal the way we do and he actually spends twelve books not reading genesis literally. In a catholic school it would be used to get students to not read the bible literally while reconciling it with their faith.
Degree is literally useless, but hey you learn how to measure skulls, so it’s the small wins.
NO THEY DONT. THEY DONT KNOW HOW TO MEASURE SKULLS. They don’t even have a good grasp of 19th century biology. They may not know what a skull is.
A skull is like the crown of the ghost where your soul lives. It was chosen for you by your Father in heaven and its dimensions indicate your social station in life and among the races.
Race Science by Chumly Dickworth IV (1872)
Not trying to gotcha you but isnt that true for plenty of “real” degrees with the current market conditions ?
Yeah that is true.
Galen. Galen “my work became obsolete in the renaissance” the anatomist who couldn’t place where the liver was in the human body if his life depended on it
I’m surprised they teach Darwin instead of Lamarck
It looks like they teach Darwin just so they can teach other people who disagreed with him
