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Nose, Eyes, Mouth, and Ears

January 8, 2022April 20, 2015 by Professor Carol

These days we’re spending a lot of time practicing “nose,” “eyes,” and “mouth” with our 19-month old granddaughter. It’s a fantastic thing, helping a child figure out what’s on her face, and watching her realize other people have these structures too. The hardest thing, though, … Read more

Really Learning Beethoven

March 14, 2015March 11, 2015 by Professor Carol

We’re glad so many of you are enjoying our “7 Days to Beethoven” mini-course. My own journey to Beethoven has been life-long, starting from age seven when I played my first Beethoven Écossaise. There were significant stages along the way, such as learning to rip … 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.”