Comet Enthusiast

As a young boy, Henry VIII's tutors included the philosopher Erasmus and Sir Thomas More. His education embraced lessons in languages (Latin, Greek, French, Italian and Spanish), grammar, theology, history, rhetoric, logic, philosophy, arithmetic, logic, literature, geometry and music. In addition to all of theses subjects the education of the young Henry also included astronomy, navigation and cartography. His interest in these subjects stayed with him throughout his life.

Few students alive today have the advantages of a Henry VIII. With the stresses affecting today's public high schools and students, new solutions are desperately needed to boost the quality of U.S. secondary education to prepare our students for college and beyond, and give them the tools they'll need to compete with students in the emerging worlds and education-centric cultures of China, India and Asia.

"Our secret sauce," says The World is Flat author Thomas Friedman, "comes from our ability to integrate art, science, music and literature with the hard sciences. That’s what produces an iPod revolution or a Google."