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Sample Lessons - Modernity
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Lesson 1: Orientation12 Steps
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1.1—Introduction & Note-taking (Video) - Sample
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1.1—Read Quotes About Wisdom
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1.2—Why Life? (Video) - Sample
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1.2—Read Tolkien Letter
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1.3—Why School? (Video) - Sample
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1.3 — Read Arthur Quiller-Couch Quote
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1.4 —Why History? (Video) - Sample
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1.4 —Read History Quotes
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1.5—Course Assignments (Video) - Sample
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1.5 – Lesson 1 Portfolio
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1.5—Lesson 1 Exam
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1.6–Project 1 (Video) - Sample
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1.1—Introduction & Note-taking (Video) - Sample
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Lesson 2: The Great Stage: Introduction to the West12 Steps
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2.1 — The Principle (Video) - Sample
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2.1 — Read Westminster Confession Chapter 1
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2.2—Christendom & Modernity (Video) - Sample
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2.2—Read the Nicene Creed
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2.3—The Thirty Years War (Video) - Sample
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2.3—Read Gustavus Adolphus Farewell Address
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2.4—John Amos Comenius (Video) - Sample
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2.4—Read The Great Didactic
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2.5—The Legacy of the West (Video) - Sample
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2.5—Lesson 2 Portfolio
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2.6—Project 1: Reformational Imitation (4 min video)
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2.5—Lesson 2 Exam
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2.1 — The Principle (Video) - Sample
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Lesson 3: Ideas Have Consequences: The Enlightenment11 Steps
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3.1—The Principle (Video) - Sample
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3.1—Read Proverbs 1-4
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3.2—Ockham & Descartes (Video) - Sample
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3.2—Read Descartes
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3.3—Spinoza, Hobbes, Locke & Hume (Video) - Sample
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3.3—Read Hume
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3.4—Kant, Diderot, & Voltaire (Video) - Sample
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3.4—Read Kant
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3.5—Rousseau (Video) - Sample
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3.5—Lesson 3 Portfolio
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3.5—Lesson 3 Exam
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3.1—The Principle (Video) - Sample
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Lesson 4: The Sacred & the Secular: Empires, Pirates, and Rulers11 Steps
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4.1 —The Principle (Video) - Sample
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4.1 —Read Rousseau Selection
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4.2 —Explorers & Empires (Video) - Sample
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4.2 —Read "The History of the Indies" Selection
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4.3 —The Muslim Threat & Catholic Missions (Video) - Sample
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4.3 —Read "Lepanto" & Francis Xavier Letter
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4.4 —The Golden Age of Piracy (Video) - Sample
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4.4 —Read Don Lewes Transcript
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4.5 —Enlightened Despots (Video) - Sample
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4.5 —Lesson 4 Portfolio
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4.5 —Lesson 4 Exam
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4.1 —The Principle (Video) - Sample
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ASSIGNMENT:
- Read the following quotes about the pursuit and use of wisdom and education.
- Write a short essay or discuss with your instructor: What does education and the pursuit of wisdom require of us?
SELECTION: Quotations about wisdom and education.
“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding”
-Proverbs 9:10
“Crafty men condemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them”
-Francis Bacon
“Education ought to be little more than a form of intellectual repentance. If it is more than that or less than that, horrors result”
-J.R.R. Tolkien
