Thoughts on Teaching and the Creation of a Teaching Order

Thoughts on Teaching and the Creation of a Teaching Order Recently, I have shared my plans and thoughts on advocating for and creating a monastic teaching order for a new Anglican boarding school " St. Dunstan's Academy. " I will express my culminated thoughts related to this in a few words. There have been several influences for me reflecting on this. These have been, in short, a renewed interest in the monastic tradition, a changed view on education in light of classical education tradition, the need for quality teaching, my desire to devote my own life to teaching Christian youth, and finally an epiphanic realization of the necessity of something like teaching orders in our very day. For those unaware, a teaching order would be a monastic order of either monks or nuns whose purpose stood primarily serving the church by the education of children. Situating Our View of Education Some may be familiar with the history of teaching within the Christian West and that schools...