Beauty for Truth’s Sake: On the Re-enchantment of Education Stratford Caldecott (Brazos Press, 2009; 156 pp) The subtitle of this book led me to expect that it would be good but somewhat conventional. I expected that it would be about the attempt to recover the foundations of education as they were understood before modern specialization…

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First, a poem, surely the greatest ever written about a cat: “For I will consider my cat Jeoffry,” by Christopher Smart—and thanks to Clare for bringing it to my attention. And a picture: It’s also by far the best picture of me I’ve ever seen. I took it two or three months ago, and it…

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