Description: The foundation of the Wilhelm Scholê curriculum is based on the history of civilization, which entails a complete involvement in the arts as well as the humanities and sciences, for the arts are that incessant spiritual activity which provide an insight into mankind’s history – real history – of what we have sensed and felt and imagined and dreamed and idealized and loved…
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Developing Global Renaissance Human Beings
Raphael’s School of Athens is a perfect image of a Scholê, where life-long learners such as Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Zoroaster, Heraclitus, Pythagoras, Averroës, Diogenes, Epicurus, Ptolemy, Euclid, Zeno, and others are engaged in the life-giving pursuit of knowledge.
SCHOLÊ, from the Greek meaning leisure. Scholê, the root word of school, implies the life-long pursuit of an expanding use of time so as to develop to the fullest the mind, body, and spirit. Scholê exemplifies the Greek belief that "the unexamined life is not worth living." ( Socrates ), and the certitude that education must prepare one for leisure, for a country that cannot its leisure properly will collaspe.