Jane Elder, Author at Professor Carol

Advent Day 20: A Little House Christmas

December 18, 2015 by Jane Elder

Imagine growing up in the 70’s—the 1870’s, that is. You live on the vast, mostly unsettled prairie in what is now the Midwestern United States. It takes a whole day to travel the forty miles by wagon to the nearest town, and your closest neighbor … Read more

Music on the Road

August 18, 2015 by Jane Elder

1 Van … 2 Parents … 5 Children … 5 Weeks … 32 States … 11,000 Miles … and countless songs to pass the miles! Last August and September, our family, with five kids then aged four to seventeen, traveled from our home in Richmond, … 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.”