by Publius | May 26, 2021 | Contemporary Culture, Grey Matter, History and Tradition
By Alex Sosler | (Source) For what purpose is our suffering? If this year of COVID has accomplished anything, it’s forced me to slow down. If you can remember back to those beginning months, there was one long pause from our collective work-a-day world. What do I do...
by Prof. Jack | Jun 24, 2015 | Grey Matter
By R.J. Snell | In a recent essay, Mark Shiffman notes that in the fiercely competitive but nonetheless gloomy context in which university students find themselves, many opt to “major in fear.” Fear that they won’t find work or pay off student loans. Fear of lost...
by Publius | May 18, 2015 | Grey Matter
By James Matthew Wilson | Plato would say that education in the liberal arts initiates you into the imaginative, theoretical, and practical dimensions of human life, equipping you with both the vision and intellect necessary for living a dynamic and meaningful life in...
by Publius | Jun 4, 2014 | Grey Matter
By Scott Samuelson | Once, when I told a guy on a plane that I taught philosophy at a community college, he responded, “So you teach Plato to plumbers?” Yes, indeed. But I also teach Plato to nurses’ aides, soldiers, ex-cons, preschool music teachers, janitors,...
by Prof. Jack | Apr 30, 2014 | Grey Matter
C. S. Lewis sounds this warning in a 1939 essay recently collected and published in Image and Imagination: Essays and Reviews by C. S. Lewis (page 22): Education is essentially for freemen and vocational training for slaves. That is how they were distributed in the...
