tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161577947209023637.post5313194619428982595..comments2024-02-18T20:34:22.439+04:30Comments on Restless Reason: Discere Gratiā DiscendīChris Petersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06971062280390918450noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161577947209023637.post-19968143231160787382011-07-23T03:58:13.230+04:302011-07-23T03:58:13.230+04:30FLG,
I much appreciate the quotation. I wished I ...FLG,<br /><br />I much appreciate the quotation. I wished I would have been a bit more analytical and a lot less rambling on this post but it came from a knee jerk reaction to that documentary.Chris Petersenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06971062280390918450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161577947209023637.post-11400955251756662012011-07-17T15:52:27.767+04:302011-07-17T15:52:27.767+04:30"Another idea may be to resurrect the classic..."Another idea may be to resurrect the classical learning tradition where kids get a good dose of Latin, Greek, Ancient History and Literature, Logic, and others in addition to the more "practical" forms of learning such as math and science. There are some private schools that have begun to adopt this method but those have a strong Christian element which is obviously not something I'm advocating for public schools."<br /><br />My second favorite <a href="http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/ch1_15.htm" rel="nofollow">Tocqueville passage:</a><br />"It is evident that in democratic communities the interest of individuals as well as the security of the commonwealth demands that the education of the greater number should be scientific, commercial, and industrial rather than literary. Greek and Latin should not be taught in all the schools; but it is important that those who, by their natural disposition or their fortune, are destined to cultivate letters or prepared to relish them should find schools where a complete knowledge of ancient literature may be acquired and where the true scholar may be formed. A few excellent universities would do more towards the attainment of this object than a multitude of bad grammar-schools, where superfluous matters, badly learned, stand in the way of sound instruction in necessary studies.<br /><br />All who aspire to literary excellence in democratic nations ought frequently to refresh themselves at the springs of ancient literature; there is no more wholesome medicine for the mind. Not that I hold the literary productions of the ancients to be irreproachable, but I think that they have some special merits, admirably calculated to counterbalance our peculiar defects. They are a prop on the side on which we are in most danger of falling."FLGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04153989000780677971noreply@blogger.com