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Colgate University students and faculty gathered to discuss one of the proposed slates of curriculum for the new CORE Conversations course on Tuesday, April 25. The colloquium, titled “Our Relations,” was the third in a series where professors discuss the texts they worked with while teaching CORE Conversations this semester. The panel consisted of Assistant...

In his keynote address at the National Symposium for Classical Education in February, Daniel Scoggin, co-founder of the classical charter school network Great Hearts Academies, traced the decline of classical education in America back to liberal ideas of the Enlightenment, ideas that, in his telling, unleashed an individualism, industrialism, and relativism antithetical to any education oriented to truth, beauty, and goodness.

Negative characterizations of human beings abound. It is common to hear people assert that humans are naturally greedy. Or competitive. Or stupid. It should also be noted that the one making this declaration never includes himself or herself. The messenger is innocent. But the rest of us are judged as being wholly no good. Most