Some things today had me thinking about a poem from The Lit Window and the choices I began making a long time ago and continue making today. As I said to a friend today, I’ve never regretted choices I made that in favor of family and relationships. . . . → Read More: Contemplating Failure (poetry)
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It’s been disheartening to watch the humanities, which one could easily imagine would have been home to those least easily fooled by the deadening dissolutions of all the twentieth century’s ideologies, to witness it becoming so badly confused and self-contradictory, following a dead end road of modernity and post-modernity, a way marred with thousands of road signs bearing only slogans and pointing nowhere real. . . . → Read More: A new counterculture: beyond the dead zone  Comments are closed  Readings, Transcendence, Writing  Education, Modernity, narrative story, Philosophy, Truth If you have any fault to find with any one, tell him, not others, of what you complain; there is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man’s face and another behind his back. We should live, act, and say nothing to the injury of any one. It is not only best as a matter of principle, but it is the path to peace and honor. . . . → Read More: Robert E. Lee on honesty: a companion text to Machiavelli 3 comments - (Comments are closed) Character, Explore, Listen, Narrative Environment, Readings, Teaching, Tell, What is worth admiring?, What is worth choosing?, Writing Candor, Duty, Honesty, Robert E. Lee, Truth The primary mission of dragons is simply to keep people from the truth, particularly those truths that lead most directly and surely to joy. This is mainly because dragons are not themselves happy, having once hoped joy could be theirs as an entitlement rather than as what it always has been and always will be–a complex balance requiring constant care. So now they wander the dark regions, trying to vindicate themselves by blocking the way of others to rather simple moments that unaccountably add up to eternity. . . . → Read More: The truth about dragons One comment - (Comments are closed) Character, Desire, Essay, Family, Metaphor, Narrative Environment, Teaching, Transcendence, What is worth admiring?, What is worth believing?, What is worth choosing? Courting, Evil, Gender, Love, Transcendence, Truth Conor Williams at Front Page Republic offers a critique of progressivism at this historical moment that might be useful to English teachers. He argues that faith in centralized bureaucracy has overwhelmed the progressive ideals of strong, democratic communities. This insight should resonate with teachers buffeted by the frequent dopiness of No Child Left Behind . . . → Read More: Has progressivism lost the path home? |
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