December 29, 2009

What the world needs today is a little more hypocrisy. Matthew Arnold pointed out that hypocrisy is “a tribute that vice pays to virtue.” Our age follows the counsel of Voltaire, who said you couldn’t accuse him of hypocrisy because he never presumed to say he was anything. Remember when virtue meant something? Maybe not. …

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A school is a dream. It’s built on the fantasy that one can create a world, a community, a culture, that nourishes the soul and leads people to higher ends. For some the ends are individualistic, particular, even the self-indulgence of a self-important mind. For others the ends are higher – oriented toward the perfection …

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