The hardest thing by far about my vocation is the travel, and the hardest thing about travel is coming home. No, it isn’t returning to my dear Penelope (nee Karen) that is so hard. It’s returning to a world that has kept on moving without me, both at home and at work. And it has […]
From a certain standpoint, classical education is just about the least faddish thing possible, because human beings have been reading Plato for well over two thousand years now. On the other hand, classical education is not simply “reading Plato.” Classical education is also sports programs, Land’s End uniforms, Spring formals, mission statements, and parent-teacher conferences,
“ . . . [W]e continue to clamour for those very qualities we are rendering impossible. You can hardly open a periodical without coming across the statement that what our civilization needs is more ‘drive,’ or dynamism, or self-sacrifice, or ‘creativity.’ In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function.
