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Every Child is Born a Person: Classical Education for All
My background had taught me to view the labels, the deficits, first, yet Mason was pointing me towards the person...
Don’t Call it a Comeback
We may ask ourselves how we can defend academic integrity from AI, but we should first ask how we became so vulnerable to AI in academia.
The Semester the Lights Came On
When the fall semester began, several classes attempted streaks. No one expected all the classes to succeed, but it seemed especially unlikely that underclassmen would. Yet they succeeded.
Inheriting Wisdom’s Mansion: A Review of An Invitation to the Liberal Arts
Myers considers four particular questions or misconceptions that many prospective students have regarding the liberal arts.
A Movement: Citizen Humanities?
The term "citizen humanities" argues for the complementary nature of work by academics and non-academics.
Large Language Models and the New Scholasticism
In trying to systematize relationships between words and humans, both medieval scholasticism and today’s automated dialogue sterilize the sources of human vitality.
A Place to Stand: The Aims of Teaching, The Good of the Canon, and The Great Gatsby at 100
The real work of judgment makes possible stability and repair, a work worth even one’s death, or, what may prove more difficult, a lifetime of obscure fidelity.
Education in a Different Story
We must begin to see and name how deeply the modern higher education industry subverts the very nature of embodied, placed, limited humans.
ChatGPT Can Code. But It Cannot Discern.
Colleges and universities should focus on forming the uniquely human attributes that AI cannot replicate.
AI and Affection with Berry, Merton, and Capon
We don’t have to ride along.
State Universities Should Serve the State—Not the World
In focusing on the global economy, universities often lose sight of the needs of local economies.
Reading Rilke with the Catherine Project
We've made it all the way from the overstepping of Orpheus, the land, and poetry into something our own lives can do (spill over as though water from a fountain--or, perhaps, light…
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