Status Updates From Poetic Knowledge: The Recov...

It’s slow going but I desire deeply to understand so slow is a must. Also, if I were to ever write a book, I shall use the same paper and typeface of Poetic Knowledge as both are beyond delightful!

“But to love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way…for the object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.”

Thoroughly enjoying this book and the class I’m taking alongside it. Highly recommend for anyone interested in classical education, educational philosophy, and Charlotte Mason.

“All of the educational experiences detailed in The Republic for the child—songs, poetry, music, gymnastic—are meant to awaken and refine a sympathetic knowledge of the reality of the True, Good, and Beautiful, by placing the child inside the experience of those transcendentals as they are contained in these arts and sensory experiences.”

“Of course, this all has to do with how we view the human being, and if man is seen fundamentally as a sophisticated machine possessing certain brain-driven animal appetites, then all considerations of transcendent mode of knowledge and education are beside the point.”

The scientia of the ancients and medieval thinkers is distinct from poetic knowledge but never separate.