The Following Teachers Will Return to St. John's College Next Year
Who We Are
St. John’s is a community of 1,000 students engaged in the rigorous exploration of great books and enduring ideas. Across philosophy, literature, the sciences, and more, students and faculty learn together by reading real books, asking deep questions, and pursuing truth for its own sake. St. John’s offers an education that is both timeless and timely. Instead of hiding behind screens and lectures, students engage with the books and each other to uncover a shared humanity and an intellectual fearlessness—qualities that serve them in college, life, and career.
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“St. John’s, with its famously demanding curriculum, hovers like a high-achieving angel over the landscape of American higher education.”
—Los Angeles Times
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“What’s the highest calling of higher education? St. John’s College has some enduring answers.”
—Frank Bruni, New York Times
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“There should be 100 St. Johnses.”
—Malcolm Gladwell
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“The most rigorous college in America.”
—Forbes
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“A school for the intellectual explorer.”
—Colleges that Change Lives
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“The most forward-thinking, future-proof college in America.”
—Quartz
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“The courage to be distinct.”
—David Brooks, New York Times
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“A curriculum that would make Socrates proud.”
—Chronicle of Higher Education
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“A school for self-directed intellectuals.”
—Forbes
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“With great professors and distinguished alumni, who could ask for more?”
—HuffPost
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“Johnnies drop words such as ‘truth’ and ‘virtue’ in casual conversation.”
—Washington Post
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“St. John’s College is weird. Maybe yours should be more like it.”
—The Chronicle of Higher Education
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“These college students ditched their phones… could you?”
—The New York Times
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“Where I learned to read.”
—Salvatore Scibona, The New Yorker
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“One of the most beautiful colleges in America.”
—Architectural Digest
Annapolis Campus
On the historic streets of Annapolis, near Washington, DC and on the Chesapeake Bay, Johnnies embrace long-held traditions such as waltz parties, theater, and the famous annual croquet match against the US Naval Academy. The college was founded here in 1696, and the city of Annapolis remains home to students who share a love of books and ideas. Merit and need-based scholarships, including Pell Grant matches, make this experience affordable for all.
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Santa Fe Campus
The Santa Fe campus, in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, is the setting for some of the best hiking, art, live music, and scientific innovation in the United States. Johnnies live on campus surrounded by the stunning natural environment and rich cultural heritage of New Mexico––made possible for all who want to join this community of readers by our New Mexico in-state grants, Pell Grant matches, and generous need-based aid and merit scholarships.
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Back in Print: A Brief History of 'The St. John's Review'
Following a five-year hiatus, the storied collegewide publication is back in a new digital-first format.
Johnnie Filmmakers Chronicle Journey From Santa Fe to Korea's DMZ
Seohyun Lee (SF26) and Ahin Song (SF26) received a Projects for Peace grant to make a short film with a big question: Could North Korea and South Korea harness the power of St. John’s-style communication to resolve a decades-old rift?
Ancient Greek Ghosts of the St. John's Program, Ranked
In a way, it's Halloween all year round if you're a Johnnie.
Tutor Harvey Flaumenhaft Revisits 'The Federalist Papers' Amid Nation's 250th Birthday
Flaumenhaft’s third and most recent book, 2025’s "The Framework of the Federalist: Visualizing the Structure of the Argumentation," analyzes the logic and rhetoric of “Publius”—the collective pseudonym of three Founding Fathers—to bolster support for a new Constitution.
Preserving New Mexico's Past With Future-Oriented Philanthropy
Astrid Schwarz (SF26) became inspired to write and illustrate a children’s book, "La Limpia," while interning with the Historic Santa Fe Foundation as the inaugural recipient of the James R. Hennessy (SF82) Memorial Endowed Career Pathways Fund.
New Fall Art Exhibitions in Annapolis Pose Questions About Freedom and Trust
Entry is free at the Mitchell Art Museum
ABQ Reads: St. John’s College to Give Free Classic Books to Albuquerque High School Students
ABQ Reads event will bring students, family members, readers, and community members together at three local independent bookstores on Sept. 12–13
St. John’s College Announces Fall Lecture Series
Lectures, offered in Annapolis and Santa Fe, are free and open to the public
The Most Forward-Thinking Future-Proof College in America
In a world upended by artificial intelligence, St. John’s is the rare college where students have an education based on rigorous books and real human connection, and that analog experience is why our students are better prepared for life and careers. Our Career Pathways program includes guaranteed funding for internships and graduate school partnerships; the college is one of the strongest feeders in the country to PhD programs and top law schools.
What Authors Say
“What we do not understand we do not possess.”
—Goethe
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“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
—Plato
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“Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.”
—Cicero
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“A man would make but a very sorry chemist if he attended to that department of human knowledge alone.”
—Mary Shelley
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“Only the educated are free.”
—Epictetus
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“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence.”
—Albert Einstein
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“It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.”
—René Descartes
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“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.”
—Cicero
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“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
—Michel de Montaigne
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“Someone, I tell you, will remember us, even in another time.”
—Sappho
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“Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher.”
—Plato
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“Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
—Aristotle
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“Perhaps someday it will be pleasing to remember these things.”
—Virgil
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“For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth.”
—Plutarch
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“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”
—William Shakespeare
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“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.”
—Blaise Pascal
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“Sapere aude!”
—Kant
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“The purpose of education... is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself.”
—James Baldwin
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“We consider it a good principle to explain the phenomena by the simplest hypothesis possible.”
—Ptolemy