Advent Calendar Reminder

November 20, 2019 by Professor Carol

If you are getting our Weekly Digest, then you will start receiving the Advent Calendar each day beginning December 1.

But what about your friends? Maybe the daily essays that you have come to enjoy would brighten up their holiday preparations as well. If so, just send them the link below along with a word of encouragement.

Professor Carol’s Advent Tradition

The Weekly Digest and Friday Performance Picks will go on hiatus while we do daily Advent essays and return after Christmas.

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.”