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Athenian Stranger
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Athenian Stranger
@Athens_Stranger
I teach the Great Books of our tradition ||Excellence in education: Intro through PhD level || SubStack @AthensCorner
Joined December 2020
- This guy purchased the complete set!
democracy dies when we stop fighting for it, my friends. - I was once teaching a course to undergrads and a few were anthropology majors. They brought up the concept of “pigeon” languages, and without blinking I laughed and said “Ah yes, the currently fashionable way academia is justifying lowering standards for certain minority groups”
- Guy I know, decorated from multiple tours in Vietnam, both Iraqs, Afghanistan Was deployed to Somalia, did a tour and said he would retire before going back Said nothing he ever saw in combat compared to their savagery Decade later we let Minnesota become a fiefdom of Somalia
- The most monstrous students I’ve ever seen were high school kids introduced to the great books too early by teachers entirely lacking the serious background in the great books to even be teaching the great books (almost all charter schools) Good books for kids, not great booksStarting to label and pack the kids’ school supplies. Here is what my daughter will study in integrated humanities this year (10th grade).
- I have a 100% accuracy rate at being able to determine how a man votes politically by how he exercises
- Mandarinization in the classroom results almost immediately in the Mandarinization of “high” societywent to a fancy dinner in SF and everybody went to Harvard (or Stanford)
- Men do not speak this way. This is how a woman speaks.Look at these guys brag about bullying an ally under fire. Pathetic. Weak. Shameful.
- The University of Oxford has announced ending its undergraduate degree in classics b/c, they claim, such a field of study lacks relevance in the modern world Counterpoint: Modern man makes all previously great things small b/c he’s content that *his* soul remain small (1/3)
- This is more common than most people know. It’s easily among the greatest problems for all Christians going forward b/c so many women are doing it. The challenge is this: Redemption is definitive to Christianity. However, most of these women won’t give up “influencer” status.Is this a Win?
- Reminder: Victory is nothing if it does not mean merciless retribution
- This was the goal of Emily Wilson’s translation all along — it’s honestly that simple friendsChristopher Nolan’s next film is an adaption of ‘THE ODYSSEY’ • Described as a mythic action epic that follows the tale of Odysseus & his 10-year journey home after the Trojan War • Starring Tom Holland, Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Matt Damon, Lupita Nyong’o and Robert Pattinson
- Replying to @Athens_Stranger… never before had I seen a group of students who otherwise loved me become so immediately and vehemently outraged. Good times
