The cry for myth

Liberal Arts education offers an alternative vision. It begins by asking not only what works, but what is true, what is good, and what is worthy of love. Myth answers these questions not abstractly, but incarnationally-through story, symbol, and image. When such animating ideas are front and centre, student engagement is a natural by-product as they become personally welcomed into learning, not merely as a brain, but as a whole person.

To recover myth, then, is not to abandon reason or retreat into nostalgia. It is not a case of elitism or cultural hegemony. It is to restore education to its proper task: the formation of wise, free, and fully human persons. Classical education does not reject science; it situates it within a richer account of knowing and being human.

In reclaiming myth and narrative, we do not lose intellectual rigour. We recover wisdom.