“Classical education is an agrarian form of education. Modern education is industrial. The human body is made of the dirt of the ground; we can’t know ourselves apart from the garden. It’s simpler, more local, more focused on the rhythms and harmonies of nature and the soul. Someday, perhaps, we’ll be able to see it [...]
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The Beauty of Dirty Hands
Posted in Children & Family, Education, Scripture & Theology, tagged Education, Gardening on April 20, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Neighborliness: On a Shared Life
Posted in Children & Family, Scripture & Theology, tagged Community, Neighborliness, Wendell Berry on January 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Another of my weekly columns published by the CiRCE Institute – January 26, 2012. Over the last several weeks, my mind has swirled about with questions of community, conversation, and neighborliness. I have posed questions to the CiRCE reader community: How do we remake the lost places of conversation? What does it mean to be neighborly? What is [...]
The Power of Neighborliness
Posted in Culture - Current Events & History, Scripture & Theology on January 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“It may be very difficult for modern people to imagine a world in which men are not generally admired for covetousness and crushing their neighbors; but I assure them that such strange patches of an earthly paradise do really remain on earth.” – G.K. Chesterton My students and I spend many hours wrestling with “big” [...]
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