3. Noble-but-Fallen Creatures (5.27.25)

"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 their true potential. With apologies to John Locke, our children are not blank slates. They, like ourselves, are noble-but-fallen creatures endowed with reason, driven by purpose, and hungry for meaning. They must not be herded or manipulated to serve a purpose foreign to their essential ontological being. Rather, they must be nurtured in a proper education, equipped with the proper virtues, challenged by the proper reading, and entrusted with the proper legacy." (Louis Markos, Passing the Torch, 28)