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Bells of Tragedy and Triumph

June 6, 2017November 9, 2013 by Professor Carol

WEIMAR, Nov. 9, 2013 – Bathed in the quiet of early evening, we were snug at our computers when the bell went “klingel.” Our dearest Weimar friends, Gudrun and Jochen, rushed in and said, “Get your coats on and come.” After 12 years of friendship, … 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.”