Half Past Noon

Good stuff from Rod Dreher (HT: Caleb Stegall):

“Schooling,” [the priest] told me, “has not changed the people for the better. This is the pain in my heart. Those educated want nothing to do with their animals. They just want to leave. Education should not be a reason to go away. It’s an obligation to come back.”

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• F says:

  February 1, 2010 at 10:52 pm

  Interesting. This bit stood out to me:

  … how many of us, living our middle-class lives, would endorse our children choosing to refuse success as middle-class America defines it, instead returning to the land to farm, or to engage in some other non-remunerative activity that guarantees that they’ll live on the relative margins of our society? I’d like to think that I would, because it’s more true to what I value, but I cannot say with confidence that I would. Because after all, I have not made that choice for myself.

  Is such a choice actually “more true” to what we “value”? I wonder.

  I’ll let Socrates voice a question on my behalf: “Is it natural for practice to have less hold on truth than theory has?”

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