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The teaching was strict, the learning hard. But waiting at the far end of the journey would be civilized human beings, citizens who had learned what their culture was about. It may be telling that we do not find many instances in the ancient world of pupils set to writing their own poems: their task was not to express themselves, but to bow humbly at the feet of others. They were apprentices, to know, not be known.
— Dec 21, 2015 07:37AM
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Here I am, visiting in Rome. What a great place to give me perspective on a book about our classical heritage.
— Jan 08, 2016 12:32PM
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Theodore Roosevelt: “Democracy comes short of what it should be just to the extent that it fails to provide for the exceptional individual, no matter how poor his start in life, the highest kind of exceptional training; for democracy as a permanent world force must mean not only the raising of the general level, but also the raising of the standards of excellence to which only exceptional individuals may attain.”
— Dec 22, 2015 08:23AM
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The use of the word culture hails from the halls of anthropology. If only there it had stayed. But it slithered forth from the laboratory to infect us all. Here was a word hot for serving up on a steaming platter to the over-degreed and half-educated. It excuses ignorance and inoculates the ignorant from any responsibility to know anything beyond their kith and kin. Culture now is any chunk of social reality you like
— Dec 19, 2015 12:25PM
