Course: Classical Geometry

Course description:

Would you like your child to really, really be able to think clearly?   This course guides the student through what is perhaps the greatest mathematical and logic work ever written, Euclid's Elements of Geometry.  While modern geometry books come and go, Euclid's Elements of Geometry, written over 2,500 years ago, has remained an astounding classic ever since.

We believe there is no course in our curriculum more powerful and effective in forming the student's thinking skills than Euclid's Elements (also known as Euclidean geometry).  In fact, Euclid's presentation of geometry as a science is the clearest and most perfect example of a science we have ever seen.  He begins with only a small set of simple tools like basic definitions and postulates and from these builds a beautiful structure of proofs.  It is hard to know what to enjoy more - the truths he proves, or the methods of his science. 

Euclidean geometry was the standard text in high school geometry until about 1900, when education became much more modern and inferior.  Euclidean geometry forms the mind by careful science, theory, thinking, and knowledge itself.We way this not because our modern geometry course is poorly written or presented, but simply because no geometry presentation can compete with the beauty or match the benefits to the student's mind that Euclidean geometry provides.   WARNING:  This course is not for every student.  If your child likes a challenge, loves to learn, and is not afraid of hard work, this course is probably for him.   If it does not work out, you can cancel this course and we will refund your course fees if done within one month of enrollment - that is how much we try to get students to take this course.   

This course offers an annotated textbook which helps the student through the material, as well as a video series in which the student can watch other Catholic students tackling the proofs.  Not to be missed!

This is a modular course. Please click on any of the links below to see details for the subcourses.

Course fee:

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