What do an air hammer, a student, and the Greek philosopher Plato have in common?
They are all part of an education that, as Plato puts it, teaches “children to desire the right things.”
At Harmel Academy of the Trades, on the picturesque campus of Kuyper College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the all-male student body studies more than just hydraulics and pneumatics or troubleshooting machinery.
The postsecondary institute’s founders have every hope that their coursework encourages each student to grow in holiness, to appreciate the inherent value and dignity of his work.
Students like Matthew Asselin relish a technical type of hands-on training to hone their future craft. Asselin, along with five others, will graduate this spring from a unique trade school that specializes in machine and systems technologies—and the humanities….