Continuing with my earlier blog on a summary of why the cultivation of virtue is a central key to education, I take up here the relationship between thought and action. Again, pardon my attempt at being very basic and elementary.
I began our tour with “Man is a rational but fallen creature” and wound up with [...]
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Instructions for rightly ordering the human soul…
I want to try and put in a short summary all the disparate but related parts of a large conversation I have been having and continue to engage in as I oversee a school. The general topic is the human soul, expressly the young human soul. And the over [...]
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The following ideas came out of our first (and only formal) discussion of “Tending the Heart of Virtue.” I may not have remembered them all, so by all means, faculty, chime in using the “Comments” section.
We started by reading the recent blog by Andrew Kern on Fairy Tales
We wondered together about common objections to [...]
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If you are not familiar with Vigen Guorian’s work, Tending the Heart of Virtue, read it. Now.
If you are, then you may be interested to check back in from time to time here as I blog on the experience of taking my faculty through Vigen’s book. We have chosen up teams of three [...]
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