St. John’s College : Annapolis
St. John’s College : Annapolis is a established in (unknown). The campus is located in and hosts students with an endowment of .
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St. John’s College is unique in that our students all follow the same Program. There are no majors or minors or electives here – everyone takes the same classes. That, combined with a small student body – 450-500 undergrads – means that we enjoy a very tight-knit community. I can talk to anybody here, because we all have at least the Program in common.
That Program consists of small, discussion-based classes. We call our professors ‘tutors’ because they do not lecture or ‘profess’, they guide discussion. When we read the text, they don’t tell us what to think, they help us learn how to ask questions and discover for ourselves what we think the books mean.
When I say ‘books’, I don’t mean textbooks. At St. John’s, we read the original texts. For geometry, we’ll read Euclid and Apollonius. For astronomy, we’ll read Ptolemy, Copernicus, and Kepler. For biology, we’ll read Aristotle, Harvey, Darwin (and many more!). For philosophy, we’ll read Plato, Aristotle again, Plotinus, Lucretius, Kant…I can’t even remember them all of the top of my head. We do a lot of philosophy. For theology, we’ll read selections from the Bible, Augustine, Aquinus, Dante, Anselm, and many more. This list doesn’t touch the surface of what we read here, but I’ll leave it at that.
When telling people about the Program, I’ll sometimes hear people reply with, “Oh! I wish my college had been nothing but reading. I hate writing essays.” That always bothers me – we write a lot here. We learn how to write well and how to explore topics through our essays. We don’t write research papers. Our essays are not explaining someone else’s ideas. Our essays explore our own ideas. St. John’s is not, as a lot of these people think when first hearing about it, a fun, easy little book-school. We work hard here. St. John’s is one of the most rigorous schools in the nation. The difference between us and other colleges is that students here actually want to learn – not just get a good grade.
Of course, St. John’s isn’t all work and no play. We dance – a lot – and have parties and drink tea and watch movies and write stories (for fun) and play video games and bake cookies and goof off and have good, college-y fun.