So-called safe-speech, microagressions, and trigger-warnings are ruining education, and if we lose education, we lose the battle for our humanity. God wants you to be educated, and this is what I think that means.
Read moreAn Invitation to Academic Studies by Jay Green
Most Christians consider education to be optional--or worse, to be unholy and in need of redemption. But Jay Green shows the false dichotomy between religion and academia, pointing out how Christians should integrate them in a single, united, holistic pursuit of God.
Read moreThe Great Conversation by Robert Hutchins (Book 1 of The Great Books of the Western World)
It is fitting to begin The Great Books of the Western World, a set of old books consisting of 54 volumes, with a plea for a true liberal arts education--I just didn't expect it to be so short.
Read moreThe Great Books of the Western World: Embarking on a Survey of Western Thought
I'm embarking on the long and oppressive road of the Great Books of the Western World. Here I give the purpose of the set and my purpose in reading it.
Read more∞ In Defense of Difficulty
"A culture filled with smooth and familiar consumptions produces in people rigid mental habits... They know what they know, and they expect to find it reinforced when they turn a page or click on a screen. Difficulty annoys them, and, having become accustomed to so much pabulum served up by a pandering and invertebrate media, they experience difficulty not just as “difficult,” but as insult."
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