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But next year, there will be a college sending out admission letters of a very different sort. According to a story in the Boston Globe, the creators of Patrick Henry College (PHC), currently awaiting accreditation by the Virginia board of higher education, plan to invite home-schooled students to make...
The school's motto is "For Christ and For Liberty," and the only major will be government. The plan is to educate students through a combination of a classical liberal arts curriculum (which, according to their Web site, consists of "Bible, logic, rhetoric, composition, Latin, western civilization, American history, and...
But the most important part of college life is not the quality of the academic experience, not the kinds of extracurricular activities available, not the luxuriousness of campus facilities but merely the idea of student independence. Home-schooled students already miss out on a great deal of social interaction and...
There's no question, of course, that the founders of PHC have every right to create a private college which teaches the values they hold most dear. However, it is sad and a little disturbing to think that there will be enough home-schooled students available to fill their class...
Susannah B. Tobin '00 is a classics concentrator in Lowell House. Her column will resume in January.