Plutarch tells a story about Archimedes, the great Greek mathematician who lived in the third century B.C., which illustrates the profound difference between ancient and modern attitudes towards mathematics.

 

 

The first thing to understand is that mathematics is an art. The difference between math and the other arts, such as music and painting, is that our culture does not recognize it as such.

 

 

Saint Augustine Academy in Ventura California is a beautiful example of Vatican II's Declaration on Education, which states, "While belonging primarily to the family, the task of imparting education needs the help of the whole community."

 

 

"I've learned more in one afternoon with Euclid than I did in all my years of high school math!" Thus exclaimed Kim, a humanities teacher from an all-girls Catholic high school in Louisiana, after the geometry session of the Institute's first Academic Retreat for Teachers.