history Archives : Professor Carol

Forewords and Perspective

July 9, 2020July 9, 2020 by Professor Carol

While searching for an excerpt on music from Plato’s Republic, I found myself reading these words from the foreword of Oliver Strunk’s Source Readings in Music History, a landmark anthology published in 1950 that, for decades, was de rigueur for music majors to study. [A]t … Read more

Using the Arts To Teach History

November 8, 2013October 15, 2013 by Professor Carol

In this webinar I explain why you should use the arts to analyze the historical record. When children are little, we are clear about the role of the arts. We encourage children to engage in artistic expression and use their creativity to supplement the topics … 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.”