Fine Arts Archives : Professor Carol

The Language of Fine Arts

January 7, 2019August 23, 2015 by Professor Carol

Planning for the new academic year? It’s happening everywhere, from the teacher’s lounge to the homeschool kitchen. To us here at Professor Carol, this is a season of hope and challenge. How many people will recognize the intrinsic value of setting the Fine Arts into … Read more

The Arts Exist To Transform

December 19, 2020June 27, 2011 by Professor Carol

This article states so well the life-and-death importance of the Arts in our lives. (Note that I wrote “in our lives,” not just our children’s lives.) The author, Ronnie Sanders, a member of the Texas Commission on the Arts, describes the plethora of recent studies … Read more

And Then There's This . . .

Jonathan Turley, The Fight Over Parental Rights Just Got Primal. “Few would believe that sending our children to a public school means we have transferred the most fundamental parental rights to ‘experts’ on rearing our children.”

Roger Kimball, What the Right Gets Wrong About Art. “Why do so many people feel that if something is regarded as art, they ‘have to go along with it,’ no matter how offensive, foolish, or corrosive it might be?“

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.”