How Does Classic Insights Work?

The Nature of Education

There is little theory or intellectualizing in the courses of Classic Insights.  Instead, the student is encouraged to engage directly and passionately with great issues that bear upon their lives.  Literature, art and music are used as tools for self-education rather than merely as cultural entertainment or as a means to achieve grades.  Memorizing is not required. Each topic is presented to engage a more subtle level of thinking by incorporating feelings and will to the educational process.  The courses should be read several times with intervals between readings.  The student will notice many significant insights that went unnoticed at first reading.

At the end of each lecture/guide are provocative questions soliciting the reader’s own ideas, questions and impressions.  Important insights are gained through questioning.  You are encouraged to contribute to each lesson by writing your own essay about material that has helped you with your life.

Although written by a diverse faculty, each with different backgrounds and training, the guides share certain features in common:

• An understanding of the importance of love in education, and the development of human relationships based on such an attitude.
• Recognition of the ever-changing ways we view ourselves and the world we live in – the evolution of individual human consciousness.
• An appreciation of the growth of personal freedom as it has evolved in the Western Tradition.
• An emphasis on the potential for self-development and self-transformation inherent in each individual.
• An awareness of how each subject relates to the experience of “I AM” as the balanced center of thinking, feeling and willing.
• A sense of integrating the whole as well as clearly distinguishing the parts of each subject.
• An exploration of the creative and artistic elements in our lives and in civilization in addition to the factual and intellectual elements.

You have the opportunity to study in a wonderful school of enlightenment with Classic Insights and we look forward to hearing from you.