National Anthem Archives : Professor Carol

Old-Fashioned Respect

September 29, 2016September 27, 2016 by Professor Carol

I’m spending my birthday in Central Eastern Europe this year. We’re coming into the final stretch of our tour, leaving Vienna, enjoying Bratislava for an overnight, and then reveling in our last three days together in Prague. We’ve visited palaces, cathedrals, monuments, and castles galore. … 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.”