May 31, 2011

The world we live in is not classical and it views things from a radically different perspective. As a result, sometimes they’ll say things about classical education that are meant kindly but are like nails down a blackboard. Here’s an example: “The classical method sees children’s minds as efficient machines that absorb knowledge foundationally in […]

The Great Books are not great because some power structure approved them. If people read the Platonic dialogues closely, for example, I am quite certain that the gnosticism, relativism, and sissy form of nihilism that empowers our decadent government would come under serious review. That is one reason our schools disable our students from being