1. Tell a story about something that happened to you or your family that changed your life.
2. In what ways is a school like a ship?
3. What is your favorite book and why is it worth reading?
4. Consider the Incarnation, the Beatitudes, the Crucifixion, and the Resurrection. Is our Catholic Faith paradoxical or full of contradictions?
5. Do you think poetry is important? Why or why not?
6. Using the myth of Icarus, the Greeks taught that virtue was in the middle way. What does this mean?
7. Are goodness, truth, and beauty objective realities?
8. Was it wrong for Jack to steal the treasures from the Giant at the top of the beanstalk?
9. Tell a story of how you achieved something in the face of a challenge.
10. A wise man once said that all men are either sailors or cowboys. What does that mean, and which are you?
11. Why does God allow bad things to happen to good people?
12. St. John Bosco used to say that there is no such thing as a sad saint. Do you think this is true?
13. G.K. Chesterton wrote that anything worth doing is worth doing badly. Is that true?
14. In what ways are sports like a microcosm of life?
15. Sherlock Holmes said, “I am not retained by the police to supply their deficiencies.” Are those words of a heroic person?
16. What do you look forward to and what might be difficult at boarding school?
17. What is the purpose of school?
18. Read “The Tuft of Flowers” by Robert Frost. Is it true that “Men work together…/ Whether they work together or apart"?