“Further up, and further in!”

That’s a quote that I’m sure any homeschooled or classically educated student will recognize at once. In the last book of C.S. Lewis’ masterful Narnia series, the adventure comes to a close with Aslan inviting his people into Aslan’s Country. As Plato’s Republic instructs us, education is the chief way that we may pass through the “stable doors” of knowledge into higher and more eternal realms. Sursum Ascende is merely a purposefully repetitive translation of this quote; it means literally “climb up higher.” We aren’t just merely ascending without purpose, we have a telos, and that aim is the eternal realms of Theology—knowing our Creator better.

The Liberal Arts tradition (established by Plato) attempts to integrate all the disciplines into a coherent whole that mutually inform one another. Humanities paired with this, instructs us in worldview and how we ought to converse with the world around us.

Sursum Ascende Tutorials desires to bring this vision to high school students through the disciplines of language and Medieval humanities courses.

Meet Our Instructor

Cosette Gaukler (BA, New Saint Andrew’s College) is passionate about the world of ancient and medieval languages, literature, philosophy and history. She studied Liberal Arts and Humanities, specializing in Anglo-Saxon studies, and completed a 12,000 word thesis on Abbot Ælfric of Eynsham and his pedagogical use of miracles within his literature.

Cosette is a Latin fellow at Ancient Language Institute and teaches elementary to high school Latin online. In addition, she has studied French, Old English, Biblical Hebrew, and German. She enjoys what people might call the “little things” of life. When she’s not studying or working as a florist, she enjoys fresh coffee, foreign cinema, strawberries, Dutch still-life, William Morris’ textiles, wildflowers, and oak trees.