On the Necessity For Long Sentences

We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but since dinner (Mrs. Reed, when there was no company dined early) the cold winter wind had brought with it clouds so somber, and a rain so penetrating, that further outdoor exercise was now out of the question.

That is the [...]

What’s a Teacher To Do?

At least one of the goals of eduacation must be to understand. That seems self-evident to me - bound up in the act of education itself. So I’m always intrigued and part of me is always puzzled by the antipathy among educators and parents for reading and thinking about profound and compelling ideas. American society [...]

What’s A classical school leader to do?

When a school determines to become a college preparatory school, it has two options. It can either think about the kind of college it is preparing its students for or it can become a silly little meaningless school that has no identity of its own and neglects its duties to its students.
Of course, it will [...]

The role of the lit teacher

Neither Shakespeare nor Homer has an importance bestowed by literature professors and their universities. The true bestowal flows entirely in the other direction. What professors of literature can rightly bestow is honor, because meaningful praise has to come from those who know the excellence of things.
Why Literature Matters, Glenn Arbery
Change professors to teachers and you [...]

Going to College

Thomas Sowell comments on college admissions:
“one of the tragic misconceptions of many students and their parents is that you have to go to a prestigious, big-name academic institution to really get ahead and reach the top…..Stop and think: What is an academic institution’s prestige based on? Academic prestige is based mostly on the research achievements [...]

A few more thoughts about sex, guilt, multi-culturalism, and freedom

Sexual liberation is rooted, historically, in interpretations of Freud and developed by Herbert Marcuse. It’s all related to guilt.

Multi-culturalism has used a confusion strategy to assist it. Various cultures have varying sexual mores, the argument goes, therefore there are no sexual laws that are not mere cultural impositions.
The great crisis of multi-culturalism is precisely that there is [...]

dorm brothel unvisited

An acquaintance is a freshman in college this year and I have begun to receive, indirectly, reports from the front. The most disturbing so far was when this acquaintance, a girl, spent one of her first nights afraid to leave her room even to go to the bathroom because her roommates had brought some subhumans in who despised the divine [...]