Last week, I outlined my aspirations for the Academy of Chivalry. This week I want to elaborate on one of the highest goals of our school: to train young men to be courageous. But can courage be taught? So long as one thinks of teaching in terms of a Certified Educational Professionals drilling concepts and information into the brains of children in a classroom, the answer is most emphatically NO. Well-fed functionaries delivering Powerpoint slides and waxing bureaucratic will convince no one. Incongruity between the content and the context is too much.
This is beautiful. And you hit it dead on. Courage is necessary to engage our faith & values with the world and to impact it. that takes discipline. A discipline we should encourage in both man or woman.
Brilliant article. Your point about us needing to be there with the hero on his journey, in the moment, and not just knowing the end result, was especially a wonderful point. I am reading The Lord of the Rings, and can relate to this so much. It is a completely different experience to think of a book as a portal, journeying with Frodo through the forests, or running along with Aragorn on the fields of Rohan. Very excited to see what becomes of your Academy.
Can Courage Be Taught?
This is beautiful. And you hit it dead on. Courage is necessary to engage our faith & values with the world and to impact it. that takes discipline. A discipline we should encourage in both man or woman.
Brilliant article. Your point about us needing to be there with the hero on his journey, in the moment, and not just knowing the end result, was especially a wonderful point. I am reading The Lord of the Rings, and can relate to this so much. It is a completely different experience to think of a book as a portal, journeying with Frodo through the forests, or running along with Aragorn on the fields of Rohan. Very excited to see what becomes of your Academy.