The Philosopher-Kings

Cary Academy is the breeding ground of champions… really.  What other pre-collegiate institution in the world offers quite the rigor of experience that Cary Academy doles out in abundance? There is nary a chance of answering such a question.  Cary Academy is a challenge of mythic proportions, as daunting as having to behead the Hydra, outrun Apollo’s chariot, imprison the Titans in Tartarus, resist love after being struck by Cupid’s arrow, or cross the River Styx.  Those select few whom can brave and surmount the Herculean task of graduating from Cary Academy are truly worthy of the title Philosopher-King/Queen.  

The Philosopher-King, the ideal ruler of the sage Plato’s utopian city, Kallipolis, was to be the epitome of perfection, knowing well the form of the good.  The prescribed education and training of the Philosopher-Kings would consist of a general primary education until the age of eighteen and two years of intense physical training.  Next up on the plate would be ten years of intense mathematical education followed by five years of training in speech and debate, finally topped off with an extended apprenticeship in managing the polis.  What Cary Academy does is condense Plato’s fifty year game-plan into a jam-packed period of four years.  To make sure everything is covered, one is not really expected to sleep, relax, or indulge in any distraction from one’s studies.  Such is the life of those expected to become the leaders of the world.  Such a coalition of influence on the global scale is yet to be seen since Cary Academy has only just now been in operation for a decade; not enough have been made alumni. But mark my words, by attending Cary Academy and subjecting yourself to countless trials and tribulations, you will be that much more suited to make a huge impact later in life.

By Mikie Rooney
( November 2007 Volume 5, Issue 1 )