Catholic Trade Schools Are Alive! The Mike Church Show

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Catholic Trade Schools Are Alive! –  The Mike Church Show’s Free Farm Friday 

SPECIAL GUEST  – Kent Lasnoski – San Damiano Trade School

San Damiano College for the Trades – https://www.sandamianotrades.org/

• We are in Illinois unfortunately but most of Illinois is NOT crazy.
• You try to start an administrative project in Illinois, it is very difficult to do.
• Our Savior worked in a woodshop, not a cubicle. 
• Christ worked for 18 years on the wood by which he would redeem the world. Every nail Christ drove was a meditation on the ones that would pierce his hands. Our Savior, the Son of God, was a homeschooled carpenter who pounded nails, not a computer keyboard.
• In our age of digital distraction, San Damiano College for the Trades aims at restoring the trades to man so that he may support himself and his family through the honest work of his hands while contributing tangible goods to society. 
• Learn on your feet – You won’t fall asleep in the San Damiano classroom. Recovering an educational model from the days of St. Thomas Aquinas, San Damiano takes an active, dialectical, disputation-oriented approach to learning. Students come to class ready to stand and argue with each other and the faculty for or against important claims found in the greatest works written by the brightest minds and most passionate hearts of the western world. 
• San Damiano College for the Trades offers an integrated curriculum with no electives and no majors. Our liberal arts curriculum forms the mind through reading and discussing the great books—the greatest that has been thought and said by poets, philosophers, and theologians like Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, and Dante. Each course in theology and humanities features exemplars of discernment, prudence, and courage with saints’ lives and primary sources written by the saints.
• We were founded in 2024, this is our first year!
• This is our first year with students. We had 85 applications for only 22 spots. We ended up taking 24 total this year.

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