How do you teach a classroom of Sybils who are breaking apart and reforming right in front of you?
Samuel Johnson placed this on his watch as a reminder near the end of his life; "The night cometh.
Freedom without structure is its own slavery.
If colleges are going to justify themselves, they are going to have to thrive at those things that require physical proximity. That includes moral and spiritual development. Very few of us cultivate o...
To believe that you can be captain of your own life is to suffer the sin of pride. What is pride? These days the word pride has positive connotations. It means feeling good about yourself and the thin...
The imagination simplifies our endless desires and causes us to fantasize that they can be fulfilled.
It was easier to come to maturity when there were more well-defined philosophical options.
vocations almost always involve tasks that transcend a lifetime. They almost always involve throwing yourself into a historical process. They involve compensating for the brevity of life by finding me...
Her genius derives from the fact that she was capable of the deepest feeling but also of the most discerning and disciplined thought.
The church of those who are redeemed by high-school reading lists. She
I believe we inherit a great river of knowledge, a flow of patterns coming from many sources. The information that comes from deep in the evolutionary past we call genetics. The information passed alo...
(A middle-class child's) parents didn't just give him money. They passed down habits, knowledge, and cognitive traits.
Those born in the poorest quarter of American society have an 8% chance of earning a college degree. Those born in the wealthiest quarter of American society have a 75% chance of earning a college deg...
Human beings are primarily defined by what we desire, not what we know.
The problem, Augustine came to believe, is that if you think you can organize your own salvation you are magnifying the very sin that keeps you from it. To believe that you can be captain of your own...
Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self.
You can't counter a heroic impulse with a mundane and bourgeois response. You can counter it only with a more compelling heroic vision.
In the evenings she got on her knees and inflicted her piety on her sister:
most of us can only deny short-term pleasures because we see a realistic path between self-denial now and something better down the road.
I make honorable things pleasant to children." A teacher from Sparta
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