liberal arts Archives : Professor Carol

Contemplation, Euclid, and Music

May 24, 2018May 24, 2018 by Professor Carol

I am not contemplative by nature. Those who know me realize how true that statement is. Yet, at this past weekend’s conference in Louisville, Kentucky entitled The Fruitful Garden, an inspiring group of Classical educators caused me mightily to wish that I could be more contemplative … Read more

Thoughts on the Humanities

November 8, 2013October 3, 2013 by Hank Reynolds

The humanities have fallen on hard times. Knowledge of the humanities used to be the mark of a good education and the route to a fuller life. But education, in our technological world, is seen more and more merely as the route to a good … 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.”