I posted once about a joke class, a composition class, where the grading scale was based on the philosophy RBBEAW, “Raised by Boomers, everyone’s a winner.” What makes it funny is its nearness to real life. The following quote from Thomas Sowell is more evidence of just how near it is.
The Harlem schools of that era were no more like the Harlem schools of today than the housing projects of that era were like today’s housing projects. They had classes grouped by ability and, if you were serious about getting …

Here’s the course for the next generation of writers. I especially liked some of the prerequisites.
H/T Dave Bruno

The only good of great literature that is sufficient in itself is when it increases the capacity of our souls to love. It has many other goods, but when we place any other of them above that one, the others are corrupted and corrupting. Literary criticism and literature itself–indeed, all the arts–disintegrate when they are severed from love.
–Andrew Kern

I still crave the extravagant gesture, the woman spilling a year’s wages on the feet of Jesus, the rarest perfume, washing his feet and drying them with her hair, a gesture so sensual it left the other men in the room paralyzed with criticism, analysis, theoretical moral concern - for what - the poor? Or was it just misdirected outrage in light of the glaring poverty of their own imaginations?
–Linford Detweiler, one-half of Over the Rhine

One of the three hallmarks of classical education, along with truth and goodness, is beauty. It is also perhaps the least understood in our twenty-first-century world, where beauty has become entangled with visual and emotional excess. The simple beauty of poetry and fiction, for example, has fallen on hard times. So the following quotes, from the About Us section of the new journal The Christendom Review seem very refreshing.
“If the work is beautiful, then God is praised, for phenomenal beauty invariably points to transcendent beauty, and hence to beauty’s source, …