Dance Archives : Professor Carol

Isadora in Opatija

May 2, 2024May 2, 2024 by Professor Carol

Inwardly, quietly, I jump up and down when our group walks out of the Milenij Hotel into the bright sunshine. We are beginning our initial walking tour of Opatija, a literal coastal paradise more gorgeous than any brochure photo could ever be. To enter into … Read more

Dancing

July 19, 2018July 19, 2018 by Professor Carol

For the teens on this Rhine Family Cruise, the old folks dancing in the Panorama Lounge each night after dinner seem a bit comic. Through their young eyes, these grey-haired, slightly stooped, wispily fragile folks surely look too old to be fox-trotting and jitterbugging! What … 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.”