In keeping with the Wendell Berry theme on this blog lately, here’s a provocative paragraph from the essay “The Agrarian Standard” in Citizenship Papers: Industrialism prescribes an economy that is placeless and displacing. It does not distinguish one place from another. It applies its methods and technologies indiscriminately in the American East and the American West, […]
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If you went to a “normal” school, chances are you’ll answer yes without hesitation. I know that I would. In this 20 minute talk, Ken Robinson helps us to understand why this is the case and how tragic it is. There’s a lot I could say, but it would be much better to let this brilliant […]
So I get a letter from Canada student loans today. I sigh, try to decide whether or not to open it (they’re usually just telling me about the next paperwork hoop to jump through, or reminding me of how in debt I am), and then receive a pleasant surprise: I just received a Canada Millennium […]
This quote is from the epilogue of William C. Ringenberg’s The Christian College: A History of Protestant Higher Education in America: One of the great problems of contemporary higher education is that while the public universities largely promote the worldview of secularism, they actually believe that they maintain a neutral stance on religious and other types […]
So, if you haven’t gathered by my recent quotes and by the books in my sidebar, I’m heavily researching the integration of faith and learning. Since end-of-term crunch time does not leave me much time for posting, I will instead subject you all to quotes I find interesting. The following quote is from Arthur F. […]
