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Category Archives: education
How Does Anyone Love the Lord God With the Whole Mind?
In this last Sunday’s Gospel we hear, You shall love the Lord, your God,with all your heart,with all your soul,and with all your mind. Now I think most people are familiar with the first two thirds of this injunction- we … Continue reading
Pope Pius XI: Encouragement for Teachers From a Teacher’s Pope
No matter what ails the nation, turmoil in the inner city, conflagrations, and riots, anxiety over the upcoming election, fears rational and irrational, nonetheless, along with the season of fall there arrives the insuppressible feeling of a new academic year! … Continue reading
The Civil War Did Not End These Four Kinds of Slavery.
The bad news is that the Civil War did not put an end to slavery. Sure, the Civil War did end the apparent and visible slavery that made legal the ownership of human beings by other human beings, whereby the … Continue reading
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Tagged Berquist, custom, fashion, liberal education, Plato, slavery
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Learning in Virus Time
In a sermon delivered in the Fall of 1939 titled Learning in Wartime, C.S. Lewis asserts, every Christian who comes to a university must at all times face a question compared with which the questions raised by the war are … Continue reading
St. John Henry Newman and the Scandal of Catholic Classical Education
Saint John Henry Newman, speaking of the unique status of Western Civilization in the history of the world, emphatically asserts, I think it has a claim to be considered as the representative Society and Civilization of the human race, as … Continue reading
The True Purpose of Catholic Education
Well, I wish this was an interview with Jordan Peterson about Pope Pius XI’s FANTASTIC encyclical on Christian education Divini Illius Magistri. But alas he was not available, so I was more than happy to fill in for him.
There are no teachers.
At the outset of a new academic year those of us who have the privilege of working with students in that mysterious process that we call ‘education,’ are again confronted with the question about how we might succeed a little … Continue reading
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Tagged call no man teacher, Classical Education, doctor, electrician, plumber, Teacher
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Two Reasons Why Things Are Difficult to Understand
As has been thoroughly set forth and expounded by the inimitable philosopher, the late great Duane Berquist, in a beautiful succinct and brilliant paper on this very subject, there are seven times when we need to go wisely and slow in … Continue reading
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Tagged Duane Berquist, Romans 1:20, Saint Paul, wisely and Slow
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The first two places we need to go “wisely and slow”(ly)
I can tell when a topic is so fascinating that people are just not ready to move on. And you, O fortunate reader, are lucky that I have this gift! Many would have long since abandoned the interesting topic of … Continue reading
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Tagged Berquist, Euclid, Shakespeare, wisely and Slow
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Slow down, you move too fast!
The lazy hazy days of summer are here and I can’t think of more appropriate advice to give anyone than that which Friar Laurence gave to Romeo: ROMEO O, let us hence; I stand on sudden haste. FRIAR LAURENCE Wisely … Continue reading