Welcome to the Wisdom Academies!
Before being taught outside the home, children generally learn some docility from parents and from their individual conscience, which, according to Aquinas, is the habit of prudence acting as judge, jury, witness, and prosecution of personal choices. In learning docility, we all acquire some common sense.
Common sense is simply some understanding of first principles that are causing some organizational whole to have the unity it has that causes it to tend to behave the way it does. It is an understanding common to anyone who intellectually grasps the nature of something, the way the parts (causal principles) of a whole incline to organize to generate organizational existence and action. Strictly speaking, common sense is the habit of rightly applying first principles of understanding as measures of truth in immediate and mediated judgment, choice, and reasoning! Considered as such, it is the first measure of right reasoning!
Contemporary Enlightenment colleges and universities are essentially designed to drive out common sense from the psyche of students, convince them that the only species of understanding (common sense) is mathematical physics. In doing this, it causes students to become anarchists, unteachable, people out of touch with reality who cannot tolerate to listen or to speak to or with anyone who disagrees with them.
The only method that can possibly work to correct this problem is the one these academies essentially use. This is not because these academies are proposing them, but because they are evidently true to anyone with common sense about human education: such as Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Aquinas.
Peter A. Redpath, PhD
CEO, Aquinas School
of Leadership
See course list for uncommon commonsense wisdom being offered by CWLAA starting in
September 2021; their educational consultants may be contacted through the
Aquinas School of Leadership at:
peterredpath@aquinasschoolofleadership.com.
Syllabi for other
courses are presently being prepared. As they start to near completion, their
course descriptions will be added to this catalogue.
NOTE: To make more accessible direct contact
between talented students and talented educators, as far as possible to remove
administrative interference between these individuals, CWELLA/CWECA
courses are not designed according to the standard
Enlightenment Western college and university 15-week format of semesters and
weekly lectures, which include mandatory final exams, term papers, and final
grades. They are designed according to an Eastern Martial Arts format of
15 Lessons, which, according to the level of advancement of the
student and permission of the instructor, may be done in 15, or
more or less, consecutive days or weeks. With the permission of the
educational consultant, students in the same class can complete the same course
asynchronously. The same class may also have rolling enrollment for
the same class, or the educational consultant may continuously open one or more
other section(s) throughout the year.
Once a student completes
the 15-Lesson course, the educational consultant will meet via email, phone, or
in some other online manner, to provide the student with an assessment of the
level of development in mastery of the subject the student has achieved. He or
she is not required to give the student a final exam, term paper, or a formal
grade. He or she may do so if he or she wishes. Instead, if he or she wishes to
do so, the consultant will tell the student the grade the consultant would have
given had this class been a college or university course. As in Martial Arts,
the educational consultant will tell the student whether he or she is
ready for advancement to another course within the CWLAA or CWECA curriculum.
If a student wants a final exam or to do a term paper and the consultant has
not assigned one as a course requirement, the consultant and student may enter
into a separate agreement for those activities for which the consultant will be
financially remunerated.
Once a student
acquires the equivalent of 60 college or university credits (completion of 20
CWLAA courses, including required course Ph 101), the student will be eligible
to apply for a Certificate of Completion in the CWLAA part of the
CWLAA/CWECA program. At present, no higher level CWECA courses are being
offered.
Ph 101 is the
orientation course for the CWLAA/CWECA program. Taking it is not required
before enrolling in other classes. It explains in detail the nature and
rationale for creation of this program. For this reason, only those students
who have taken this course will be granted a CWLAA Certificate of Completion,
which is required to be admitted to Level 2 (and beyond): Global Leadership and
Executive Coaching courses to be taught in CWECA.
Finally, the date of
15 September 2021 does not indicate the start of a new semester. It marks the
formal start of the CWLAA/CWECA academies as open to the general public for
enrollment in courses, for which they can pre-register. Also, this date does
not indicate the first day of classes for any course; although it might be the
start date for this or that course, if students have registered for a course
before 15 September 2021. Educational consultants decide the start and
end dates for their respective courses. These do not necessarily run
consecutively with other courses in the program.