New Catholic college seeks to reshape education in UK
By Elise Harris
.- A co-founder of Benedictus College has expressed her hope that their education style, inspired by the writings of Bl. John Henry Newman, will help to change the face of higher education in Europe.
“No one’s tried to do anything like this in the UK before,” Dr. Clare Hornsby told CNA in a Feb. 17 interview, emphasizing that “our offer will be a unique one.”
Benedictus is a university-college that Dr. Hornsby co-founded in 2010, and is modeled off of the Catholic University structure in the US, giving special emphasis to the learning of philosophy and theology with the aid of the fine arts.
The integrated courses, Hornsby observed, will “bring together the text approach” as well as firsthand experience, so that rather than just reading a book about art, the students will be able to “go out and look at art,” which brings together an “intellectual and cultural heritage.”
Hornsby explained that the idea to begin the college came about through conversations she had with her colleague Franz Forrester who graduated from the University of St. Thomas in Cali., USA, recalling how they wanted to link the study of the philosophical traditions of Plato and Aristotle to the study of culture and history.
Recalling the visit of Benedict XVI to England in 2010 for the beatification of the now-blessed John Henry Newman, Dr. Hornsby revealed that the occasion was a key inspiration for starting the initiative.
In his work “The Idea of a University,” Newman envisioned exactly this style of an “education that educates the whole person,” Hornsby observed, adding that “Newman,” as a Catholic, “was hoping to create this type of university.”
During the courses, Hornsby noted that philosophy will be used “as a way to learn how to think,” as well as to “create a complete picture” of education so that the students will be turned “into whole inquiring minds.”
Offering their first course over the summer, entitled “Foundational Aspects of European Culture,” Dr. Hornsby emphasized that this will “give people an opportunity to sample the Catholic liberal arts education.”
Particularly, it will be an opportunity to “introduce the Catholic liberal arts education to young people” in Britain, as well as those study
“No one’s tried to do anything like this in the UK before,” Dr. Clare Hornsby told CNA in a Feb. 17 interview, emphasizing that “our offer will be a unique one.”
Benedictus is a university-college that Dr. Hornsby co-founded in 2010, and is modeled off of the Catholic University structure in the US, giving special emphasis to the learning of philosophy and theology with the aid of the fine arts.
The integrated courses, Hornsby observed, will “bring together the text approach” as well as firsthand experience, so that rather than just reading a book about art, the students will be able to “go out and look at art,” which brings together an “intellectual and cultural heritage.”
Hornsby explained that the idea to begin the college came about through conversations she had with her colleague Franz Forrester who graduated from the University of St. Thomas in Cali., USA, recalling how they wanted to link the study of the philosophical traditions of Plato and Aristotle to the study of culture and history.
Recalling the visit of Benedict XVI to England in 2010 for the beatification of the now-blessed John Henry Newman, Dr. Hornsby revealed that the occasion was a key inspiration for starting the initiative.
In his work “The Idea of a University,” Newman envisioned exactly this style of an “education that educates the whole person,” Hornsby observed, adding that “Newman,” as a Catholic, “was hoping to create this type of university.”
During the courses, Hornsby noted that philosophy will be used “as a way to learn how to think,” as well as to “create a complete picture” of education so that the students will be turned “into whole inquiring minds.”
Offering their first course over the summer, entitled “Foundational Aspects of European Culture,” Dr. Hornsby emphasized that this will “give people an opportunity to sample the Catholic liberal arts education.”
Particularly, it will be an opportunity to “introduce the Catholic liberal arts education to young people” in Britain, as well as those study
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