by ICLE Team | Oct 17, 2017 | Member School Content, When I Discovered Your Words Blog
Well said, Lion and Ox: ‘But rather than fit man from the very beginning to be useful to himself and to others- (which at first glance appears like a very laudable goal!) genuine Catholic education seeks to dispose each person to be a fitting vessel for Divine Grace....
by ICLE Team | Oct 3, 2017 | Member School Content, When I Discovered Your Words Blog
Tsze-lu said, “The ruler of Wei has been waiting for you, in order with you to administer the government. What will you consider the first thing to be done? “The Master replied, “What is necessary is to rectify names.” (Analects of Confucius) At the beginning of his...
by ICLE Team | Sep 26, 2017 | Member School Content, When I Discovered Your Words Blog
Martin Luther King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” still stands as one of the most persuasive pieces for the cause of desegregation. Its rhetoric still has power today, with memorable phrases like “justice too long delayed is justice denied” and “Human progress...
by ICLE Team | Sep 18, 2017 | Member School Content, When I Discovered Your Words Blog
‘As I once wrote, “Mozart’s (and Da Ponte’s) Così fan tutte and Le Nozze di Figaro sparkle with comic brilliance on the surface, but under the surface is a deep sadness, and an unbearable pain.”’ This content, as well as dozens of other articles and resources, are...
by ICLE Team | Sep 17, 2017 | Member School Content, When I Discovered Your Words Blog
Many consider “cultural relativism” a new phenomenon. But people have long recognized that cultures differ in their moral beliefs and practices. It was not a modern anthropologist, but the Greek historian Herodotus who observed, “if one were to offer men to choose out...
by ICLE Team | Sep 11, 2017 | Member School Content, When I Discovered Your Words Blog
I love directing Shakespeare’s plays. Since the words mean everything in a successful performance, I am always faced with the challenge of interpreting every speech, every difficult passage, every seemingly insignificant scene. I delight in discovering the dramatic...
