“...if use is not an appropriate criterion for decision making in the academic life, what is? Love. ...The virtues of love as a criterion for choosing a college major...it is not pretentious. "Use" is pretentious because it claims to know something about the future that it doesn't really know. Love is immediate... [love] guarantees that you will work to your highest potential...it is part of who you are, and not just something you think, often wrongly, that you can use.” IfsThinkingKnowsUseDecisionLove IsVirtueTeachingCollegeMajorsHighestClaimsWho You AreGuaranteesAppropriateDecision MakingAcademicCriteriaPretentiousGuarantees ThatWhat Is LoveAcademic Life Author:Leroy S Rouner
“The major break in the understanding of manliness is not between, say, the nineteenth century and any particular preceding era but between my generation of Baby Boomers and the entire proceeding complex of teachings. In some ways, TR and Churchill have more in common with Homer and Shakespeare than they do with us.” MenWayUnderstandingCommonBreakGenerationsTeachingCenturyParticularBabyMajorsComplexesErasManhoodMy GenerationNineteenth CenturyProceedingManlinessBoomersBaby Boomer Author:Waller R Newell
“While a significant part of learning certain comes from teaching - but good teaching and by good teachers - a major measure comes from exploration, from reinventing the wheel and finding out for oneself.” CertainTeacherTeachingFindingsMajorsOneselfSignificantWheelsExplorationGood TeacherGood TeachingReinventing Author:Nicholas Negroponte
“My position on the issue of homosexuality is no different from the position of the Anglican Church and all the major denominations around the world. I know that it's different from the secular culture in the western world, but it's no different from the teaching of the church globally. We're Christians basically.” KnowsWorldDifferentChristianCultureChurchIssuesTeachingPositionMajorsWesternAround The WorldSecularHomosexualityWestern WorldDenominations Author:Nicky Gumbel
“I follow the teachings of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, United States Marine Corps. He won two Congressional Medals of Honor, and he wrote the highly controversial antiwar book 'War is a Racket.'” TwoBookWarStatesUnitedUnited StatesTeachingHonorMajorsAntiwarMedalMarineControversialMarine CorpsRacketButlersUnited States MarineUnited States Marine CorpsMedal Of Honor Author:Jesse Ventura