Another issue that came up in my discussion with Dr. Kopf yesterday was what he called “the tradition of truth” vs. STEM, an acronym used by the movement to base education on the four activities of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. I love every element of STEM. Some of the finest minds and people I […]
Dr. Christian Kopf is one of America’s few authentic classicists. Not only is he a professor of classics at UC-Boulder, but he understands the place of the classical languages and education in our world. Yesterday, I had the privilege of speaking with him about the foundations of education and what it means to be human
The reason I draw your attention to this post on the value of ordinariness is because of how rich is its variety of insights, even in the comments. You’ll find an unpublished, and moving, anecdote about Ronald Reagan during his GM theater days, a quotation from Lewis’s Weight of Glory, which is his yang to
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