George Weigel describes a new venture in Catholic higher education:
Wyoming Catholic College, where students read Thomas Aquinas in the original Latin, take a mandatory freshman course in horsemanship, and go on a three-week, survival-skills trek through the Rockies before they crack a book. Oh yes: At Wyoming Catholic, students are not allowed to have cell phones, but the college provides a gun room for their rifles. A visitor from the Ivy League found this combination disconcerting. I found it charming.
It sounds almost like a classical education from the Persian empire — or from John Cooper — where the primary lessons are to ride, to shoot straight, and to speak the truth.
(Hat tip to Mark O, the Pseudo-Polymath.)