T H E P R O G R A M AT S T. J O H N ’ S C O L L E G E
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S T U D E N T / FAC U LT Y R AT I O
St. John’s is a college where you will truly know your tutors, the faculty members leading classes. You will have coffee and lunch with them. You will meet one-on-one frequently. The title “professor” is avoided to signify that it is not the role of the tutors to expound doctrines in their field of expertise. Instead, learning is a cooperative enterprise carried out in small groups with persons at different stages of learning who are working in collaboration. This removes traditional hierarchies and endows students with deeper working relationships with the open, inquisitive minds that make up our faculty. And rather than relying on grades or standardized tests, you will be assessed based on your writing and participation in class through feedback directly from your tutors. This context breeds self-driven students who acquire a lifelong commitment to the pursuit of fundamental knowledge and to the search for unifying ideas.
