Temperance and Moral Education Recently two young professionals threw public temper tantrums which are available for viewing internationally via social media. The first, a top tennis player from Kazakhstan, angry at losing, destroyed not one but three tennis rackets by beating them against the ground. The second, an Italian musician,...
In 1849, Horace Mann, a member of the United States House of Representatives, wrote that only an insane man would oppose religious education of youth since religion is necessary for anyone to attain “practical morals.” He argued that, devoid of religious principles and religious affections, the race can never fall...
Simone Weil has been defined as a genius, extraordinary, an enigma. Her name evokes images of an assembly line factory worker, an intense philosophical thinker, a teacher, a leftist fighting in the Spanish Revolution, an emaciated young woman suffering from tuberculosis, a critic of Marx, and a mystic. Whatever the...
