| |  | | WHAT STUDENTS ARE SAYING
“Being a member of the Honors Program has made an extremely positive impact on my college experience. I have become close not only with my peers, but with faculty members and school administrators. Being the president of the Honors Program has helped me interact with others, learn about how the University functions, and given me the tools I need to succeed after graduation.”
–Dan Falanga, Council President (Psychology/Pre-Physical Therapy, Class of ’09)
 “I have thoroughly enjoyed being in the Honors Program. We have had some great debates in our Honors classes, and we have gotten to know one another really well. Our events have sparked my interest in learning, and allowed me to spend more time with my friends in the Program.”
–Chelsea DiProspero (Psychology/Education, Class of ’09) "The Honors Program at SHU was a great opportunity for me to expand my knowledge of subjects outside of my major concentration. Not only did it allow me to participate in classes with other students who had a passion for learning just as I did, but it also prepared me better for life after college. In addition to learning the skills I needed for each major, I was able to more fully develop my critical thinking, writing, communication and public speaking skills in many of the classes I took as an Honors student. All of these additional skills have helped me to succeed in the business world."
–Justin Gage (Computer Science/Political Science, Class of '06)
"St. Thomas More, the namesake of the Honors Program, realized a fundamental difference between 'schooling' and 'education.' In his phrase: 'many are schooled, but few are educated.' The same can be said in our time: many students go to college, but only a precious few  become educated, incumbent to which is to possess a love for the lifelong pursuit of truth. Fittingly, then, the Thomas More Honors Program creates an environment replete with intellectually vigorous classes, innovative campus events, and culturally engaging trips, that allows its students to experience and develop an ever-deepening and broadening desire to understand. To become educated in this manner—at once personally enriching and globally relevant—is increasingly rare. And yet, it is vitally necessary for the individual, our country, and world. The university, according to English political theorist Michael Oakeshott, must provide such a foundational experience, 'an initiation into a civilization… [a] beginning to learn our way about a material, emotional, moral and intellectual inheritance.' This is more than reading great books, although, that is certainly an essential part of any education worthy of the name. It is primarily about acquiring fluency in 'languages'—how to think historically, philosophically, scientifically—and having the 'leisure,' as in being wholly immersed in learning, to do so. The Thomas More Honors Program, true as it is to this, the best tradition of liberal arts education, prepares students for the challenges of the present, by being true to the lessons of the past. I am very grateful for being accepted into the Program, and have benefited immensely from this opportunity."
–Jason Guberman-Pfeffer, Council Member (Political Science/History/Middle East Studies, Class of ’08) | |