At NRO, Kathryn Jean Lopez interviews Reverend Robert W. Cook on his efforts to start a real Catholic college in Wyoming:
Lopez: Aren't there enough schools? Why start another?
Rev. Cook: There are never enough good schools and certainly not in the categories of the liberal arts, or Catholic education, or in coming to know and understand reality through immersion in nature. As Dr. Bill Bennett put it, "I would say out of all the hundreds of institutions of higher learning in our country, there are maybe a dozen like Wyoming Catholic College where you can get a traditional liberal arts education."
Other institutions might teach their students how to get a job, but very few are prepared to teach them to be a "whole" person, as God intended. WCC has also made Ex Corde Ecclesiae an integral part of its constitution. Few schools calling themselves "Catholic," can truly claim to be followers of Pope John Paul II's Apostolic Constitution.
Finally, WCC takes seriously its claim to educate the whole person, body, soul, and spirit. And so, its outdoor adventures and equestrian programs fulfill the third dimension necessary for the education of the whole person: an aspect often unaddressed in our country's institutions of higher learning.
Lopez: What makes you distinct?
Rev. Cook: We provide an environment of true education in authentic freedom, a "freedom" that liberate through the pursuit and discovery of the Truth and does not deteriorate into "license." Parents who send their children to WCC can be assured that at they have been entrusted to a community of faculty and staff that will help those children become better people; a community where they will be encouraged and guided to become a more thoughtful, deeper person, and one where they will be equipped to meet any future challenges they may face in the world. Many colleges speak of educating the "whole person" but we are one of a very few that truly believes we can deliver on that promise.
No mention of the football team, internship opportunities, or the alumni network. Don't they understand what's really important?
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