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"Wisdom is the principal thing: therefore get wisdom. And in all your getting, get understanding" Proverbs 4:7
2008 Conference Information
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Conference Schedule

 

Friday, Feb. 8:

1:00-2:00     Registration
2:00-3:00     Workshop #1
3:00-3:30     Break/Book Sales
3:30-4:30     Workshop #2
4:30-7:00     Hotel Check-in/ Dinner
7:00-8:30     Plenary Session
8:30-10:00   Coffee House

Saturday, Feb. 9:
     
8:30-9:00     Continental Breakfast
9:00-9:30     Morning Meditation
9:30-10:30   Workshop #3
10:30-11:00 Break/Book Sales
11:00-12:00 Workshop #4
12:00-2:00   Lunch
2:00-3:00     Workshop #5
3:00-3:30     Break/Book Sales

3:30-5:00     Plenary Session
Some of the topics covered include:
  • Thoughts from the Inklings: Mythos in Education
  • Thoughts from the Inklings: Role of Cosmos in Education
  • Thoughts from the Inklings: Problem of Pathema (suffering) in Education
  • ACCS Accreditation: The Standards and the Benefits (Patch Blakey)
  • Cohesion Through Competition: A Look at the British House System
  • Lifting Up Our Eyes: Establishing Memorable School Ceremonies
  • Who’s Keeping the Gate?:  A Socratic Dialogue on Admissions Policy
  • Changing the Ship’s Course:  Turning Towards Classical Education
  • Developing the Christian Mind Through the Trivium and Quadrivium
  • Equipping, not Enabling, Our Children
  • The Great Conversation Didn’t End with the Inklings
  • “Will This Be on the Test?”:  Instilling the Delight of Learning
  
 

 

 

 

 

The Pursuing Wisdom Colloquy is a classical education conference approved by the Association of Classical Christian Schools (ACCS). Continuing education credit will be awarded for conference attendance.

This Year's Speaker

 

Louis Markos holds a BA from Colgate University and an MA and PhD in English from the University of Michigan.  He is a Professor in English at Houston Baptist University, where he teaches courses on British Romantic Poetry, Literary Theory, the Classics, Victorian Poetry and Prose, C. S. Lewis, Lord of the Rings, Epic, and Film.  Dr. Markos is the author of Lewis Agonistes: How C. S. Lewis can Train us to Wrestle with the Modern and Postmodern World, and of two new books: From Achilles to Christ: Why Christians Should Read the PaganClassics, and Pressing Forward: Alfred, LordTennyson and the Victorian Age.  He has also produced two lecture series with the Teaching Company (The Life and Writings of C. S.Lewis; Plato to Postmodernism: Understanding the Essence of Literature and the Role of the Author), and has had articles published in such journals as Christianity Today, Touchstone, Theology Today, Christian Research Journal, Mythlore, Christian Scholar’s Review, Saint Austin Review, and American Arts Quarterly.  He is a popular speaker in Houston, and has spoken on such topics as C. S. Lewis, ancient Greece, ancient Rome, and Dante in over a dozen states and in Oxford.  He is committed to the concept of the Professor as Public Educator and believes that knowledge must not be walled up in the Academy but must be disseminated to all who have ears to hear. 
Conference Overview

 

Colloquy: a conversation or dialogue; an academic gathering for delivery of addresses on specific topics with opportunity for questions.

This colloquy is a convocation of classical Christian and home school educators, designed to encourage one another to pursue wisdom above credentials, and to seek beauty and goodness rather than mediocrity and convenience.
Plenary sessions and workshops have been planned with teachers, administrators, parents, and home school families in mind. The plenary sessions on both Friday and Saturday will include a lecture from our guest speaker and a time of contemplation and worship. The theme of our worship this year centers on spiritual meditations from the Inklings.
We have also allotted time in the schedule for conferees to have time for personal reflection, for conversation with other educators and parents, and for shopping at the book tables.

 
Why Should I Attend this Conference?

As a teacher, why should I attend the P.W.C.?
To have a place and time in the middle of a hectic school year to have your own soul reordered and refreshed and to have your own vision renewed

To have a place and time for reflection on the purpose of your own profession and the vision of your school community as a whole
 
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As an administrator, why should I attend the P.W.C.?

To have a place and time in the middle of a hectic school year to have your own soul refreshed and your own vision renewed: to have a break from the routine

To have a place and time for reflection on the purpose of your role in the school and the vision of your overall school community
 
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As a parent, why should I attend the P.W.C.?

To better understand the purpose and vision of classical Christian education

To cooperate in and engage in your child’s education: to learn how parents and educators are involved in the same task
 
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Why Providence is Committed to this Conference
 
... Providence has a desire to provide a place and time in the middle of a hectic school year where we as teachers, administrators, and parents can gather together to catch our breaths and to break from the routine long enough to have our souls restored, our minds reordered, our vision renewed, and our questions addressed by a larger community... 
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