JS Mill on education

A general state education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another: and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleses the preominant ower in teh government, whether this be a monarch, a priesthood, an aristocracy, or the majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it [...]

Today is the big day

If you register for the conference by midnight, you will save $15/person while guaranteeing a seat. Quite a few registations have come in over the past couple weeks. No, you are not about to be shut out, but there’s no telling how long it will take to fill. Go to www.circeinstitute.org to secure your future! [...]

Hazlitt on controversial subjects

“When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.”
- William Hazlitt, English writer and literary critic (1778-1830)

“The end of all learning” – Erasmus

“All studies, philosophy, rhetoric are followed for this one object, that we may know Christ and honor him.  This is the end of all learning and eloquence.”
- Desiderius Erasmus

Don’t forget

The early conference registration ends tomorrow. Here’s a taste of some of what you dont’ want to miss:

Vigen Guroian: The office of childhood
VG: The Liturgy of Creation: The Melody of Faith
Martin Cothran: The Nature of Nature
MC: Education: Agrarian or industrial
Karen Kern: The Nature of the Moral Imagination and how to cultivate it
James Daniels: The Nature [...]

Kern on Gamble on Clement on Anaxarchus on Sovereignty

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Anaxarchus the Eudaemonist wrote well in his book On Sovereignty: Wide learning is both of great advantage and great disadvantage to its possessor. It benefits the person of skill, it damages the person who lightly says anything in [...]

Meet Attractive Christian Singles Near You

I really did see that on an ad. I wonder if the advertisers were Christians.
At least pop-Christianity provides amusement when you can avoid thinking about it too seriously.

Dismal Thoughts?

The world we are building is not a world for humans. but that’s all right, because there are very few people who want to be human and there are fell less that want to treat others as though they are human. The world to come is the world of Northwest Airlines, of government bureaucracies, of [...]

A Complete Privilege

David Foster Wallace, a great essayist and critic himself, once visited Alcoholics Anonymous meetings to try to get at why they were so effective. He pointed out that during the meetings people passed around bromides and platitudes to encourage each other and build each other up. But, he said with evident surprise, it worked.
Or, as [...]

Education & Moral Development

Oscar Wilde once said, “I can resist anything but temptation.” Many, if not all, temptations could be described as the desire for an appropriate thing in an inappropriate way.
Think of it, even the “worst sins” – murder, sexual deviation, etc. – are perversions of things that are good and right in and of themselves. Murder [...]