Examining Classical Education
Who is a Classical Education for?
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It’s all about decision-making
Late 19th century and early 20th century industrialists had to prevent workers from making decisions, because that would interfere with productivity. The effect was to reduce the lives of the works to sub-human routines (it may be worth comparing that practice with Josh Gibb’s article from yesterday about the place of liturgies!). The labor unions
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The Computer is the Enemy of Freedom
Some people want things more centralized and some people want things decentralized. It would be nice if it could be one or the other, but as with all things, we have to know the “thing” being organized before we can know how centralized it ought to be. We also need to know what centralization means.
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How to Move the World
Archimedes famously said, “Give me a lever and I can move the world.” The world has been moved. The lever by which the world has been moved is an idea, and that idea is “nature.” Two hundred some years ago, our forefathers founded on this continent a new nation, conceived in “the law of nature
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Adler On Accreditation (1941!)
Until catholic Institutions throw off the yoke of the accrediting boards, and exercise a free judgment on basic educational questions, they will never be able to realize in practice any of the principles which belong to Catholic education. Reforming Education: The Order of Learning, page 185, 186
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The Five Paths to Great Writing
Careful observation has confirmed that there are five paths to writing excellence. Neglect of any one of them will undermine a writer’s potential. They are: The Theoretical path The Practical path The Critical path The Literary Path The Linguistic Path I suspect that some readers may have a visceral reaction to the inclusion of the
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Why We Think and How We Can Do It Better
We think to determine three things: whether something is true, whether something should be done, and whether something commands our appreciation. In other words, we think to know truth, goodness, and beauty. In each case, a judgment is made. A judgment is embodied in a decision and expressed in a proposition. When we know the
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World as Image; Image as World
The church prays Psalm 3 thus: Lord, how are they increased that trouble me! Many are they that rise up against me. Many there be which say of my soul, there is no help for him in God. Selah But Thou, O Lord, art a shield for me; My glory, and the lifter up of
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Honor to Whom Honor (but not enough)
I have hardly been able to write blogs for the past few months because of how busy we’ve been here at CiRCE and one of the things that has been consuming my mind and energy is this update to LTW. Over the last day or two I’ve both drawn back to look at the whole
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The Lake of Learning
Picture this: A great lake is nesting in an alpine valley where it flows calmly through a natural dam into the surrounding world. In the lake is a well-ordered hierarchy of fish and plant life that have found the places and relations where they flourish. One day an earthquake destroys the dam and the fish
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Homer: Master Teacher
The Iliad, Homer tells us, is about the rage of Achilles and the will of Zeus, and about how these two interact with each other. Quoting Lattimore: Sing goddess the anger of Peleus son Achilleus And its devastation, which put pains thousandfold upon the Achaians, Hurled in their multitudes to the house of Hades strong
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