The Bishop Who Wants to Bring Great Books to the Midwest

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I’ve heard Bishop Conley speak about his experiences with the Integrated H.umanities Program at the University of Kansas. The professors, realizing that the majority of their students had no working knowledge of the great classics of western civilization, it’s literature, it’s poetry, it’s architecture, or much of anything else, started the IHP which was approved by the university. According to Bishop Conley, who was not Catholic at the time, this study opened the students to the wonder of learning, of beauty, truth, music, history. They even learned to waltz.

The bishop’s interview here gives a flavor of the experience.

aleteia.org/2016/02/05/the-bishop-who-wants-to-bring-great-books-to-the-midwest/
 
“Can one change the course of things by teaching the Humanities? As astonishing as it may be, the question deserves to be posed with respect to what then unfolded at the University of Kansas. To change the course of things, even the world? Surely, John Senior would have been astonished to have heard such an ambition attributed to his work as a professor. More simply, he understood that he was bound to accomplish the duties of an instructor in the best possible fashion, in constant fidelity to the truth.”

I came upon this remembrance of John Senior, one of the three professors involved in the Integrated Humanities Program, which Bishop Conley experienced as a student.
 
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