God Chose What Is Weakest In The

If We Were Not Called Upon To Work In Order To Survive, We Might Simply Lie Around All Day Doing Nothing.

Literature Transforms And Intensifies Ordinary Language, Deviates Systematically From Everyday Speech. If You Approach Me At A Bus Stop And Murmur Thou Still Unravished Bride Of Quietness, Then I Am Instantly Aware That I Am In The Presence Of The Literary.

Rousseau Ranks Among The Great Educational Theorists Of The Modern Era, Even If He Was The Last Man To Put In Charge Of A Classroom. Young Adults, He Thought, Should Be Allowed To Develop Their Capabilities In Their Distinctive Way.

With Fiction, You Can Talk About Plot, Character And Narrative, Whereas A Poem Brings Home The Fact That Everything That Happens In A Work Of Literature Happens In Terms Of Language. And This Is Daunting Stuff To Deal With.

Virtue Is Something You Have To Get Good At, Like Playing The Trombone Or Tolerating Bores At Parties. Being A Virtuous Human Being Takes Practice; And Those Who Are Brilliant At Being Human (what Christians Call The Saints) Are The Virtuosi Of The Moral Sphere - The Pavarottis And Maradonas Of Virtue.