The Great Books can be profoundly beneficial if one knows how to mine their riches. In this session of the Great Books Symposium, Gutenberg tutor Dr. Eliot Grasso will offer a seminar on how to lead a discussion on George Orwell's Animal Farm. The seminar will discuss the book while developing discussion-leading tools to help [...]
Gutenberg College is a place for students who want to think deeply, learn in community, and grow in faith and character. At Preview Days, Gutenberg opens its doors to high school students and transfer students who are considering Gutenberg’s bachelor’s degree program in liberal arts. Please join us for Spring Preview Days. Learn More about [...]
This Summer, on Friday and Saturday July 12th and 13th, Gutenberg alumni are invited to participate in a Gutenberg Alumni Reunion here at the college. A small group of alumni are working together on planning this event and will have a more detailed schedule of events ready to send to you in the next [...]
If you see yourself as someone who is intellectually curious, willing to work hard to understand complex works, excited about the liberal arts, interested in collaborative learning through discussion, and desirous to build a worldview oriented toward goodness, then Gutenberg College is an ideal choice. Apply to attend Gutenberg College in Fall 2024. The [...]
In Medieval Scandinavia, where monsters and dragons roamed the wilds, we find the great Beowulf. Through acts of cunning, bravery, and brute strength, Beowulf responds to many difficult circumstances. What is it that makes a hero? Is it what one accomplishes? What one becomes? What one intends? In this webinar, we will raise this [...]
Young children are sponges. They absorb everything: language, ideas, and customs. As they mature, they continue to absorb, but they also gain the capacity to judge new information. They are becoming independent. Maturity and independence do not come easily or quickly, however; they are the products of a lifelong search for truth in humility before [...]
Achilles storms off in a huff: Agamemnon has deprived him of his war prize. The ensuing tensions and conflicts of Homer's Iliad are wrapped up in the question of how conflict impacts the way we think about what is ultimately valuable. How did the Greeks think about what was valuable and what does the Iliad have [...]
Once Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon and took the city of Rome, he was on top of the world--for a time. But his monarchical approach to leadership made the Senate increasingly uncomfortable and led ultimately to his bloody demise on the Senate floor. In this Great Books Symposium, we will discuss Shakespeare's history play [...]
Gutenberg College is a place for students who want to think deeply, learn in community, and grow in faith and character. At Preview Days, Gutenberg opens its doors to high school students and transfer students who are considering Gutenberg’s bachelor’s degree program in liberal arts. Please join us for Fall Preview Days. Learn More [...]
Socrates is in prison waiting for his death sentence to be carried out. His friend, Crito, hatches a plan to help him escape, but Socrates hesitates. The question we will investigate in the Great Book Symposium is this: Why? A webinar for K-12 teachers in the private school, the public school, and the [...]
