Homogenization of education according to C.S. Lewis
This is a quote from C.S. Lewis which I found pertinent to our current state of education: What I want to fix your attention on is the vast overall movement towards the discrediting, and finally the...
View ArticleThoughts from Emerson…
I haven’t told you this before, but I’m a sucker for good quotes. I love em, and can’t get enough. I happened across one of my most cherished belongings years ago as a twenty year old – an old leather...
View ArticleA more profitable business by looking to the moon?
Have you noticed that the moon, when settled near the horizon, is an extraordinarily large, clear, and gorgeous astral sphere? If so, then you’ve no doubt been amazed at the detail that’s present, and...
View ArticleThank you, Dalai Lama the 14th
More of this, please. The paradox of our age We have bigger houses but smaller families; more conveniences, but less time; We have more degrees, but less sense; more knowledge, but less judgement; more...
View ArticleSecond thing of the day which I believe
Nobody tells this to people who are beginners I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is a gap. For the first couple years you make...
View ArticleFreddie Bastiat, the Great
Only the educated would read this. My guess is it will go unread. That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen by Frederic Bastiat, 1850 “IX. CREDIT “In all times, but more especially of late years,...
View ArticleA Manifesto on Compulsion
“If I make you do good, will it make you good?” Last month my family and I had the opportunity to visit the home of some good friends (I’ll refer to them as the “Smiths” hereafter). What started as a...
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