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The media cycle is an invention of modernity, as is its corollary: the lie that you are obligated to express an opinion about every news item.
There is more legitimate outrage in the world than it is healthy for you to be outraged about. Turn off the spigot and read Books.
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We seek the help of the Archangels: Michael, protect us against all evil; Gabriel, assist us in communicating the Gospel by our words and example and; Raphael, ask the Lord to bless us with his healing love and to keep us strong spiritually, physically, and emotionally.
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I have a paper coming out about Aristotle’s method in biology, as more grounded in actual observation, and less filtered through presumed theory, than much modern biology
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Dog bites man is always a headline.
When someone in a car kills a pedestrian it's barely a blip, when the unicorn of a story like this pops up the crazys all jump on it to say "BIKES ARE A MENACE!"
@Boenau
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One simple note re the CLT's Thomas Aquinas College post:
If your counterargument is that there are non-TAC programs that are serious, you have made a logical mistake. The post never said "This is the only possible serious program", only that TAC's was one.
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Have you read Aristotle inventing the proper methodology for biological investigations, Emma?
If so, should we study what various species have in common first or study individual species first?
If not, why is that sort of methodological question irrelevant for someone considering how to do biology.?
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In my PhD program we had two kinds of students:
— Those who did their undergrad at St John’s College (“Johnnies”)
— Those who did their undergrad at Thomas Aquinas College (TACs)
As different as both schools are, both exemplarily prepared students for serious PhD study
This is from Thomas Aquinas College in California. This is what a serious undergraduate education looks like.
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Commodus was, in fact, the villain in Gladiator.
Joaquin Phoenix has said playing Commodus in Gladiator (2000) was emotionally exhausting because he tried to understand the emperor's loneliness rather than judge him. He believed the character never saw himself as the villain.
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"Reading, writing, and arithmetic are not in and of
themselves education. They are more akin to skills that society believes the learner must learn in order to learn."—Vigen Guroian, soon to be released book from Memoria College
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A Cubs vs White Sox World Series could be a chance for the reunification between the Catholic Church & the Assyrian Church of the East. (Both are headed by men from Chicago who support different teams as Mar Awa III's gift to Leo XIV shows.)
In the outrageously unlikely event of a Cubs-Sox World Series, I would have to go against the Pope, and I’m not prepared for that.
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Public school asked: how to we teach “soft skills” like perseverance, resourcefulness , etc….
But no one wants to read books….
Each kid has a laptop.
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A post can be completely true and still mislead you.
How?
A real Information can be manipulated through what’s left out, what’s emphasised, and how the information is presented.
Here are 3 ways to spot information manipulation👇🏻👇🏻
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AI can teach your kids the fundamentals faster, but it cannot form them into adults that will lead civilization to prosperity and goodness.
That's still your job.
Education is 100% replacable by AI if education is understood as downloading information. In fact, it can probably do that job much better.
But if education is fundamentally about formation, the cultivation of the right affections, a deep love of God, family, and country, and a relentless pursuit of truth, goodness, and beauty, AI doesn’t stand a chance. Only inspirational teachers, can do that.
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'Michaelmas moon' is the full moon which occurs close to the feast, and the time around it. In 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight', Michaelmas moon is said to bring with it 'wynter wage' - a chill pledge of winter coming, and the prospect of accounts to be settled.
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It's the eve of Michaelmas, the great feast of St Michael and All Angels - an invocation of the powers of light as the year turns towards the darker days of autumn. Here's a thread on Michaelmas daisies, geese, moons, and other traditional namesakes of the angels' feast.
Michaelmas, on 29 September, is not only an important festival in the church year but in England also historically the autumn quarter-day. It marked a moment of transition: the shift from the harvest season into later autumn, the start of new contracts and new school terms.
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“You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content.”
-C.S. Lewis in "Prince Caspian."
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For an educated person, AI is a useful servant. For an uneducated person, it is a crutch that can serve as a disincentive to ever become an educated person.
I don't think school lessons need to incorporate AI for the sake of students learning how to use AI.
Anyone with a strong knowledge base can pick up AI quite easily from what I have seen.
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“And soon, very soon, before you are an old man and an old woman, great nations in your world will be ruled by tyrants who care no more for joy and justice and mercy than the Empress Jadis. Let your world beware.”
- Aslan (C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew)
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