Peter the Great Webinar

November 8, 2013October 1, 2013 by Professor Carol

Our course on Imperial Russia continues with the Romanov Dynasty through Peter the Great. The webinar for Oct. 3 has been recorded because of my schedule with the Smithsonian “Old World Europe” tour. Those enrolled in the course can access the recorded webinar from the course page.

Remember that there is no webinar on Oct. 10. We will pick back up with live webinars on Oct. 17 with the Tsarinas – Elizabeth, Anna, and Catherine.

And Then There's This . . .

Vince Bielski, When Classical Learning Meets Public Education the Dialogue Isn’t Always Socratic. “Classical education, whose name gained traction in the 1980s to evoke the movement’s focus on liberal arts and the Western canon, is struggling to overcome local political opposition.”

Peter Wood, After College: The Coming Cultural Collapse of Higher Education. “Students graduate with a veneer of knowledge rather than a core. An increasingly obsolescent institution has wedded itself to an increasingly noisome cultural stance.”

Anthony Esolen, Heap Songs Upon Their Heads. “We are the most beauty-starved people, I am persuaded, who have ever trod the earth.”

Gregory Wolfe, The Wound of Beauty. “The time has come to bring beauty back, to give it the glass slipper and invite it to the prom.”