Category Archives: Liberal Arts

All Hail the Common Core!

Posted on August 27, 2013 by marklangley

Amazing! I thought that public schools could not adopt a curriculum that is any more utilitarian than they already have! But thanks to the new almost universally adopted so-called “Common Core” we can look forward to an even more pragmatic … Continue reading →

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“Everyone Can Be And Should Be Given a Liberal Education”

Posted on August 17, 2013 by marklangley

As I was searching for a particular statement that Mortimer Adler made somewhere I found an interesting article that he wrote for the University of Chicago Magazine in 1945. I still cannot find the particular thing that he said that … Continue reading →

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The Elective System in Education: A Denial That Nature Acts For An End.

Posted on August 10, 2013 by marklangley

As we have argued elsewhere the question “does nature act for an end” is of the utmost significance for everybody. Of the important lessons to be learned from a Catholic classical education, that nature acts for an end, is perhaps the … Continue reading →

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Where And When Was Catholic Classical Education Revived?

Posted on June 25, 2013 by marklangley

The Lion and Ox did not make a mention in this recent article put out by the folks at CNN. I think it is a pretty good report generally. It is about as good a description as one could expect … Continue reading →

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The Lost Art of Education and The Lion and Ox

Posted on June 21, 2013 by marklangley

“The Lion and Ox” was very pleased to be quoted by Ken Connor who is a co-author of “Sinful Silence: When Christians Neglect Their Civic Duty.”  He is also Chairman of the Center for a Just Society. Mr. Connor apparently … Continue reading →

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What Would Socrates Do?

Posted on April 19, 2013 by marklangley

Well, someone at the Wall Street Journal is a reader of this blog. An excellent friend who is kind enough to share his subscription to the WSJ – even if slightly wrinkled, brought my attention to this. Having read this … Continue reading →

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The First Reason Why Philosophy Is The Best And Noblest Music

Posted on April 7, 2013 by marklangley

The first reason why philosophy is the best and noblest music is taken from what music shares with all the fine arts but has in a preeminent degree. All the fine arts are works of reason. (I prefer to say that … Continue reading →

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St. Francis On Liberal Education

Posted on March 16, 2013 by marklangley

Well call me a prophet! The very eve of the election of Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio as our new Pope Francis, the Holy Spirit must have moved me to quote St. Bonaventure speaking about whom? Why, of course, St Francis! Not … Continue reading →

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Anaxagoras on Liberal Education

Posted on March 10, 2013 by marklangley

“Other things have a part of everything, but mind is unlimited and self-ruling and is mixed with nothing, but is itself alone by itself….” Anaxagoras, the great pre-Socratic philosopher who, Aristotle says, was like a sober man among drunkards was the … Continue reading →

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“This Pertains Most Of All To Human Nature”

Posted on March 9, 2013 by marklangley

Speaking of the Third Commandment and the relevance that it has to liberal education, we can do no better than to hear the Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman defend the very notion of “knowledge for its own sake.” This is the … Continue reading →

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