From the Margins

What do humans require to be fully nourished? "Obedience... Initiative and responsibility.. Equality... Hierarchy... Honour......

"Man as he is constituted, endowed as he is with a thirst for happiness, cannot have his thirst quenched in the finite realm; and if he...

The first stanza of Berry's 19. (2014 Sabbath Poems) penstemon digitalis "Rising out of the crowd of lowly foliage on the wood floor, a...

"The goal of education is not to teach students to think for themselves but to teach them to think rightly, not to encourage them to be...

"The free soul is not an autonomous individual indulging in licentious hedonism; rather, the free soul is an interdependent person among...

"The Iliad, Oedipus, Republic, Ethics, Aeneid, Confessions, Inferno, Hamlet, and Paradise Lost are more than artifacts to be preserved. ...

"The role of the true critic, like that of the true educator, is not to indoctrinate the young in works that fit his own individual...

"It is not that we can never have new ideas or that society can never change, but that, being the kinds of creatures that we are, we must...

"Educators who do not know who and what their students are and how and for what they were made will run the risk of misusing and marring...

"To live each day as if it were your last without speeding up or slowing down or pretending to be other than what you are-this is...

"Bad habits may be hard to break. But broken they must be. And what awaits us when, by the Grace of God, we have broken them? Good fields...