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Student Spotlight: Award-Winning Free Enterprise Speech

David Bryant — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 23:11:13 +0000

Twelfth grader David Henry recently delivered a speech at 91ԭ��’s Open House on the topic of Andrew Carnegie and free enterprise. This was an award-winning speech in the Texas Farm Bureau Free Enterprise speech competition.

Great work, David!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tT7OCh3t1c

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Student Spotlight: “All the Good Things”

David Bryant — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 06:56:16 +0000

91ԭ�� ninth grader Miranda Kunk recently presented a prose selection called “All the Good Things” by Sister Helen Mrosla at an Open House event. Miranda performed this piece at the TAPPS (Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools) district competition, where she won first place. She went on to the TAPPS state competition and placed fourth.

Miranda’s piece spotlights the fine work all 91ԭ�� students do from day to day, but her piece especially displays the presence, poise, and excellent rhetorical skill endowed to students through the 91ԭ�� classical program. Miranda is growing in both wisdom and, as evidenced in this video, eloquence.

Miranda’s teachers join her parents, Michael and Francesca Kunk, in congratulating her.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMSXJeQpVT8

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Grounded in the Good Things

David Bryant — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 06:48:01 +0000

“Our greatest inheritance, the very foundation of our civilization, is a marvel to behold and consider. If I tried to describe its rich legacy with utmost brevity, I should take the Latin word humanitas. It represents in the widest sense, the accumulated harvest of the ages, the fine flower of a long discipline of Christian thought. It is the Western mind of which we ought to turn our attentions to careful study.

“The now frivolously disregarded Trivium — emphasizing the basic classical scholastic categories of grammar, logic, and rhetoric — once equipped untold generations of young pupils with the essential tack and apparatus for a lifetime of learning. These are the very notions that once set acourse the great cultural flowering of Christendom over the past thousand years.

“Indeed, this sort of educational philosophy and methodology is that which steadfastly affirms that every student, every family, every community, and every nation needs to be grounded in the good things, the great things, the true things in order to do the right things.”

John Buchan (1875-1940)

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