Shane Saxon, with some insights on how to teach virtue in a world that makes it hard to teach:
In The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis summarizes the heart of classical education: “Augustine defines virtue as ordo amoris, the ordinate condition of the affections in which every object is accorded that kind and degree of love which is appropriate to it. Aristotle says that the aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought.” In other words, all true education aims to form students’ affections around virtue. However, many factors in society today threaten this vision of education.
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