Thomas Aquinas College
If you’re considering hiring a Thomas Aquinas College graduate, you may have some questions, such as: What is a classical liberal education? What was my job candidate’s major? Why should I hire a Thomas Aquinas College graduate? Thomas Aquinas College’s program of classical liberal education covers all seven of the traditional disciplines — mathematics, natural science, language, literature, music, philosophy, and theology. Our students don’t read textbooks, but the original works of the greatest minds of Western civilization, such as Newton, Einstein, Aristotle, Shakespeare, and St. Thomas Aquinas, to name only a few. The College has received the highest academic rankings from The Princeton Review, U.S. News & World Report, Kiplinger, Forbes, and various other college guides. The College does not offer any major or minors. All students study the same integrated curriculum that spans the major arts and sciences. That curriculum includes four years of science and mathematics, with enough credit hours to qualify, at most colleges and universities, for a double major in philosophy and theology with a minor in mathematics, Why should you hire a Thomas Aquinas College graduate? The College’s one-of-a-kind academic program does not simply teach students a set of skills; it equips them with the ability to quickly learn *any* skill set. Working through our rigorous curriculum, they develop the habits of diligence and perseverance, the discipline of analytical thinking, and the tools of excellent communication and ethical decision-making. In our small classes, where discussions are focused, intense, and sometimes contentious, they also learn to work as teams toward a single goal — the pursuit of truth. Consider the following testimonials from other employers: “Because of their experience with the seminar method, the College’s alumni are uniquely adept at solving problems and working cooperatively.” — Dr. Thomas R. Krau...www.thomasaquinas.edu
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Nov 4, 2026
Terry BarberHOST
I think about that and I say this.
Terry BarberHOST
I met him when he was at Thomas Aquinas College maybe 30 some years ago.
Terry BarberHOST
I knew he was gifted then.
Terry BarberHOST
So I only share this with you about these wonderful saints of our lives because it's important that Mother Yvonne's Emmy of Melestrope, she needs to be read.
Jared StoutHOST
Our speaker this evening, Father Sebastian Walsh, is a Norbertine canon of the Abbey of St. Michael in the Diocese of Orange, California, where he is a professor of philosophy for the seminary program.
Jared StoutHOST
After completing his studies at Thomas Aquinas College in California, he continued studies at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., receiving a license in philosophy.
Jared StoutHOST
Later, he attended the Pontifical University of St. Thomas at Rome, the Angelicum, where he received a master's in sacred theology and a doctorate in philosophy.
Jared StoutHOST
He is also the author of a number of books, including Secrets from Heaven, Hidden Treasures in the Parables and Conversations of Jesus, St. Joseph, the Man Closest to Christ, and Always a Catholic, How to Keep Your Kids in the Faith for Life or Bring Them Back When They Have Strayed.
Robert McTeigueHOST
It's bad.
Robert McTeigueHOST
But recently, our friends at Thomas Aquinas College, in conjunction with John Hopkins University, did a little comparison between the verbal test of the SATs of 2026 with 1980.
Robert McTeigueHOST
They are very, very different animals.
Robert McTeigueHOST
The short version is they've very dramatically dumbed it down for the past 45 years.
Erick EricksonHOST
And Thomas Aquinas, I'm going to read you this tweet from him.
Erick EricksonHOST
Thomas Aquinas College just dropped a study on the rigor of the new SAT.
Erick EricksonHOST
It compared the 1980-87 test with the 2026 test, and the findings should terrify everyone.
Erick EricksonHOST
Vocabulary has collapsed.
James ConleyGUEST
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James ConleyGUEST
In 2023, I was invited to give the commencement address at Thomas Aquinas College in California.
James ConleyGUEST
Great college.
James ConleyGUEST
And I was able to have access to the archives of both Thomas Aquinas College and the University of Wyoming, where Dr.
James ConleyGUEST
Senior was teaching before he moved to University of Kansas.
James ConleyGUEST
And I found a trove of letters that were between, and they were good friends, Dr. Ronald MacArthur, who is the founding president of Thomas Aquinas College, and John Senior.
James ConleyGUEST
And they both realized that there was a crisis in higher education.
James ConleyGUEST
Both of them had had successful careers in teaching, but they realized that the students were ill-prepared for the world.
Erick EricksonHOST
And Thomas Aquinas, I'm going to read you this tweet from him.
Erick EricksonHOST
Thomas Aquinas College just dropped a study on the rigor of the new SAT.
Erick EricksonHOST
It compared the 1980-87 test with the 2026 test, and the findings should terrify everyone.
Erick EricksonHOST
Vocabulary has collapsed.
Michael PakalukGUEST
I thought I'd start with the lighter stuff at the back, and I actually just started with the last one.
Michael PakalukGUEST
It was an address that he gave on the 50th anniversary of Thomas Aquinas College.
Michael PakalukGUEST
But you might even say, look, it was laziness, sure.
Michael PakalukGUEST
But also, that's an extremely interesting topic to me.
Michael PakalukGUEST
I've sent three children, two children to Thomas Aquinas College.
Michael PakalukGUEST
I've visited there many times.
Michael PakalukGUEST
I have the highest respect for that institution.
Michael PakalukGUEST
So I was just delighted when I... found that essay, and it opens with Justice Alito's characteristic humility, because he says that most things, he begins by saying that most things at Thomas Aquinas College are going very well, and they've improved a lot, but not their selection of distinguished speakers, because at the founding, Blessed Fulton Sheen was the speaker, and now he says it's just me, Justice Alito, so...
speaker_2GUEST
I've been here for a little over a decade.
speaker_2GUEST
And then prior to being here, I taught at Thomas Aquinas College for a little over a decade, the original Thomas Aquinas College in California.
speaker_2GUEST
And so it was really there that I got really introduced to the great books.
speaker_2GUEST
It was there that I was forced to teach across the curriculum.
speaker_2GUEST
You can't have a comfort zone when you either are a student at Thomas Aquinas College or when you're a teacher at Thomas Aquinas College.
speaker_2GUEST
You have to be open to doing everything under the sun.
speaker_2GUEST
And AMI gives you something of that experience as well.
speaker_2GUEST
In terms of, let me just say a few words about the class and then I want to turn it over to you guys before we kind of get the discussion going.
SebastianGUEST
But we were still involved with that.
SebastianGUEST
But nevertheless, when I came back, I was actually going to a traditional college, Thomas Aquinas College.
SebastianGUEST
And it was there that I learned about traditional Catholicism or at least more traditional forms of it.
SebastianGUEST
And so that was a long journey.
SebastianGUEST
It needs to be in place.
SebastianGUEST
So, yeah, so with that, though, I, you know, it was from that kind of began really the religious journey.
SebastianGUEST
I mean, I think you could even say maybe Thomas Aquinas College was the beginning of that or previous to that was the beginning of that because it was just even going there was a acknowledgement that I needed to take my faith more seriously.
SebastianGUEST
You know, most of the people that I grew up with, they had pretty much just left the church.
Dean BowenHOST
Not a single one.
Dean BowenHOST
Meanwhile, every single graduate of Thomas Aquinas College, he says, has read, and then he lists, he goes through the list of 25 books.
Dean BowenHOST
Every single graduate of Thomas Aquinas College They're not going to graduate the college unless they've read the Bible.
Dean BowenHOST
It doesn't mean they've read it all the way through, but they've read the Bible.
Dean BowenHOST
Unless they've read the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Republic by Plato, the Apology by Plato, Ethics by Aristotle, Politics by Aristotle, the Aeneid by Virgil, Confessions by St. Augustine, City of God by St. Augustine.
Dean BowenHOST
Buckle up, kids.
Dean BowenHOST
Number 11.
Dean BowenHOST
Now, again, this is Thomas Aquinas College in California.
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