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Last week the spring semester concluded and already a new one has begun. It’s a quick turn-around. In both instances though I confront students looking for their path forward in life. The students concluding are hoping that they passed the class in order to take the next step. Those who started with me on Monday…
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“Education is to train a child to make distinctions, to know the difference between what is good and evil, beautiful and ugly, sacred and profane. The intellectual efforts require a corresponding moral foundation, one that entails discipline, deferral and even renunciation. Formed in such a way, the child will have a secure sense of his…
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“A man’s experiences of life are a book. There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy and a tragedy.” From his personal notebook and also “The Refuge of the Derelicts” Ah, who doesn’t love Twain. And this…