Classical Me, Classical Thee Quotes

“The choices you’re making right now are setting the course for where you’ll be in five years, in ten, and in fifty.”
― Rebekah Merkle, Classical Me, Classical Thee: Squander Not Thine Education

“The point of history is to teach you to be like the men of Issachar “who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do” (1 Chron. 12:32). And the reason history is so important is that we are actually all characters in a story.”
― Rebekah Merkle, Classical Me, Classical Thee: Squander Not Thine Education

“fremdschämen—the sensation of being ashamed for someone else.”
― Rebekah Merkle, Classical Me, Classical Thee: Squander Not Thine Education

“the trivium, grammar meant the study of lots of facts, logic was the processing of those facts, and rhetoric was the winsome, persuasive application of the previous two.”
― Rebekah Merkle, Classical Me, Classical Thee: Squander Not Thine Education

“But one extremely pertinent and oft-quoted truism is that he who marries the science of today will be a widow tomorrow.”
― Rebekah Merkle, Classical Me, Classical Thee: Squander Not Thine Education

“What we want others to be struck by is the fact that you actually know what you think and why you think it.”
― Rebekah Merkle, Classical Me, Classical Thee: Squander Not Thine Education