A proud product of public education, John Coleman received his undergraduate degree in history from Western Connecticut State University. Alas, that was to be the end of his flattering academic titles. Unwilling to once again become a debt slave to usurers, his graduate studies were scotched at the half-way point.
John wasted over a decade of his professional life attempting to establish a high school for people who took neither themselves nor their worldview seriously. Burned by these unseemly experiences, on Holy Saturday of 2013 Apocatastasis Institute was founded. The Institute primarily exists to protect the humanities in se and to provide a haven for academics in a disintegrating professional field.
The author of Hurt: Some Thoughts On Disillusion, Distrust, and Disorientation These Last Few Years (2015) and The Trotsky Train: Some Words To The Discupulate (2018), John daily continues his work of restoring formal classroom learning in light of the proper personal, social, and political ends of a school.
I mainly know John as my most excellent Latin teacher - I’m a grateful student of Apocatastasis this fall semester.
I had a lot of fun taking a break from third-declension nouns and Roman naming conventions, and instead talking with John about the bigger picture of education and society. In our 90-minute-ish conversation, we got into:
The disintegration of the humanities and academia’s devolution from “powerhouse of ideas” to “job boost;”
The roots of Rockefeller education and how the past few years serve as proof of its success;
Education as the only remaining shared collective ritual;
How schools are suppressing students’ agency and producing “kiddults” with no sense of initiative;
The importance of discipline and vision in creating alternatives that exceed the quality of the current educational system;
And much more!
Find out about John’s work:
www.ApocatastasisInstitute.wordpress.com
www.Gab.com/ApocatastasisInstitute
Contact John: apocatastasisinstitute@aol.com
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Agency, Vision and Discipline