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What Education is For
In his 2006 essay, “How to Get a College Education,” Jeffrey Hart, emeritus professor of English at Dartmouth, talks of a philosophy professor he studied under who had two phrases he would constantly repeat: (more…)
In his 2006 essay, “How to Get a College Education,” Jeffrey Hart, emeritus professor of English at Dartmouth, talks of a philosophy professor he studied under who had two phrases he would constantly repeat: (more…)
My most recent post at Intellectual Takeout is about the two attacks on the humanities, one from within and one from without. An excerpt: (more…)
Al Mohler, President of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, has the ultimate response to people who say that they just don’t have time to read: (more…)
My recent article at Intellectual Takeout: (more…)
How do you persuade someone to believes something you want them to believe? Is it just a matter of argument? What about emotions? Is it wrong to appeal to the emotions of your audience? (more…)
How do you persuade someone to believes something you want them to believe? Is it just a matter of argument? What about emotions? Is it wrong to appeal to the emotions of your audience? (more…)
You won’t want to miss Professor Carol’s webinar “Teaching Through the Lens of the Arts,” on May 10, at 4 p.m. (more…)
A helpful article on the benefits of Latin from Annie Holmquist at the Imaginative Conservative: (more…)
From the Imaginative Conservative: “The Death of Grammar and the End of Education.” (more…)
Three great books professors at Columbia University give ideological political reasons for studying the classics. David Randall at First Things says that although it is unfortunate that political progressives talk about the classics in ideological terms, it may be simply that these academics see such language as the best or only way to reach those on the political left: (more…)
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