Welcome to Walden, Why I Went to the Woods, or "What is the pill?"

Uriel's recommends that interested participants try out the school by taking a one week class from the "Skandalon Skole" (three are offered.) The one offered the last week of APRIL NOT AUGUST THIS WAS A MISTAKE and is meant to introduce people to the garden of Paradise as we now have it (which is in a obviously beautiful but somewhat messed up condition) is based on nature and uses a text by Henry Davis Thoreau, who had the time and other resources necessary to live in the woods for a time on a piece of land owned by his friend Waldo Emerson. There are many sources that participants can use to embellish their understanding of nature; one need not be as widely read as Thoreau himself to appreciate the love we naturally for plants and animals.

Thoreau was interested in nature, God, economics, politics, as well as many other themes that many believe are quite revelant to our own society. Moreover, the book is of particular interest to us, since Emerson was a Unitarian preacher, and Uriel's is researching the split between Protestant and Eucharistic education which caused John Harvard to found Harvard to disprove the Eucharist, though his alma mater Oxford was originally the oldest Catholic University in the English speaking world. In addition to this, Wellesley College was founded by a banker who believed nature healed existential anxiety; oddly no such refuge was granted to men, so Thoreau had to "garden on his own" as it were. For "why I went to the woods" experiments that started out well but unfortunately went a bit awry, see for example,

by John Krakauer or the movie of the same name.

Everyone has a chance to familiarize themselves with the class. Students are encouraged to craft their own syllabi and submit it to an alum for critique, as always. There is also a sample quiz below for each chapter. Any study group can create their own, as long as it is true to the text and helps them to understand it.

sample quiz here.

sample quiz for week 2
here.

sample quiz for week 3
here
Here is a sample quiz for week four.sounds.
Housewarming quizPlease note: These quizzes are a bit mocking, and one might even venture to say, a bit disrespectful. We will be editing them for content revision, and recommend that people are more reserved in their compositions. It's good to recall Thoreau's context; he had been fired from a teaching job in Concord because he didn't want to use corporal punishment on the students, he felt it was counterproductive apparently.