Storytelling Archives : Professor Carol

Listening to History

March 12, 2020 by Professor Carol

The grandkids are in their bedroom dancing to The Wabash Cannonball blaring from a cassette of Texas history for children. I spotted it yesterday while sorting through a box of things slated to be tossed away. Snatching it up, I popped it into our “retro” … Read more

Storytelling with Jim Weiss

September 21, 2020February 16, 2016 by Professor Carol

Nothing is more delicious than a chance to visit with Jim and Randy Weiss at their beautiful home. On a recent visit, I joined Jim in his studio to record two podcasts on storytelling and the arts. Anyone who’s heard his magnificent CDs, or attended … Read more

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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.”