Schools and Co-ops

Angelicum Academy Welcomes the Following Schools & Co-Ops to our
Dual Credit High School Great Books Program

No two Great Books associated schools or co-ops are expected to be exactly alike, everything said on the subject should be taken as suggestive or illustrative of general principles. Our recommendation is not a monolithic program to be adopted uniformly everywhere without any flexibility. However our model does insist, for its validity, on the presence in all such schools and co-ops on establishing the three modes of learning and teaching equally insisted upon by Dr. Adler in said books: the acquisition of organized knowledge through didactic instruction and elementary-level textbooks; the development of intellectual skills (i.e., the liberal arts) through coaching and supervised practice; and an enlarged understanding of ideas and moral values through Socratic questioning and active participation by students, using the original texts – the Great Books – as the centerpiece of such reforms.  The precise way in which that is to be accomplished will be determined by the leadership team at each school or co-op.

Parents interested in forming or locating a Great Books-oriented school or co-op should please contact our Dean for Group Programs, Mr. Tom Orr, who will put you in contact with folks in your locale if at all possible. Here are localities from which we have received inquiries in the past (we will update this list periodically so let us know if you want your location posted).  Even if you don’t see your area listed, give us a call and we will inform if we learn of a co-op or school in your area:

  • Arlington, VA
  • Boston, MA
  • Houston, TX
  • New York, NY
  • Phoenix, AZ
  • San Jose, CA
  • Santa Clara, CA
  • Virginia Beach, VA

Thomas “Tom” R. Orr
Dean of Group Programs
Angelicum Academy
253-381-6509
trorr56@gmail.com