Megan Salazar, Author at Professor Carol

How I Learned to Stop Reinventing the Wheel

September 15, 2022September 15, 2022 by Megan Salazar

Megan Salazar and I met at the March 2022 National Symposium for Classical Education in Phoenix, Arizona. We shared animated conversations which we have continued since that time. She represents so well the passionate dedication that is fueling today’s revival of Classical education, particularly in … Read more

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.”