It’s harder for teachers now than it once was to get students to consider what Odysseus turns his back upon and what he opens his heart toward. The classics teacher has always faced the intellectual docility of youth, but the work of revealing and naming the ideals that formed this civilization was once backed . . . → Read More: Teaching ignobility
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 Comments are closed  Character, Community-Centered, Desire, Family, Governance, Schools, Transcendence, What is worth choosing?  Education, Modernity, Philosophy, Transcendence If it is true that paper and pencil tests along with common educational research methods leave out much that should concern us because many important things are difficult to measure simply and efficiently and with high levels of validity and reliability, and if it is further true that our choices of what is in the curriculum is driven by what we test and measure, then it follows logically that the schools we are building will ignore much that should concern us. . . . → Read More: Why things fall apart Comments are closed Character, Governance, Readings Education, Modernity, Philosophy, Politics, Progressivism What interests me most is what Arbery says about The Illiad: “Of all the poems in the history of the West, actual Scripture aside, but including the Divine Comedy, Paradise Lost, and all the devotional lyrics ever written, God loves the Iliad most.” . . . → Read More: Why literature matters I think an important question for teachers today is why intellectuals from the mid-twentieth century on have labored so hard to mystify and problematize truth. It’s a real question and I think there are true answers that are worth understanding. The answers are not immediately obvious though to those who have been subjected to years of ideological indoctrination. . . . → Read More: Truth and its envious imitators Comments are closed Ask, Character, Community-Centered, Desire, Explore, Governance, Narrative Environment, Readings, Transcendence Evil, Modernity, narrative story, Transcendence, Truth 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 The experience of the young is, increasingly, that every human attachment is basically voluntary. Life is all about designing oneself according to an ever-expanding menu of choices provided by an increasingly free, prosperous, and globalizing society. A choice, they’ve been told, is nothing more or less than a preference, and nobody can tell an . . . → Read More: Constructing a point of view 2 comments - (Comments are closed) Character, Community-Centered, Miscellaneous, Teaching Modernity, Story |
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