SHAKESPEARE’S CLASSICAL CURRICULUM
Elizabeth Lynn’s An Ongoing Experiment, a disquisition on the states’ humanities councils, has just released by the Kettering Foundation: http://kettering.org/wp-content/uploads/An-Ongoing-Experiment.pdf. I especially liked Peter Levine’s Foreword, and especially his quotation from Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew:
Only, good master, while we do admire
This virtue and this moral discipline,
Let’s be no stoics nor no stocks, I pray;
Or so devote to Aristotle’s cheques
As Ovid be an outcast quite abjured:
Balk logic with acquaintance that you have
And practise rhetoric in your common talk . . . (I.i)
So ancient philosophy is just fine, but why not a little pleasure from Ovid as well, and why not put the great legacy of ancient rhetoric to use in our individual and civic lives? Not a bad start for a classical education. One could do worse. Many students do.
Elizabeth Lynn’s An Ongoing Experiment, a disquisition on the states’ humanities councils, has just released by the Kettering Foundation: http://kettering.org/wp-content/uploads/An-Ongoing-Experiment.pdf. I especially liked Peter Levine’s Foreword, and especially his quotation from Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew:
Only, good master, while we do admire
This virtue and this moral discipline,
Let’s be no stoics nor no stocks, I pray;
Or so devote to Aristotle’s cheques
As Ovid be an outcast quite abjured:
Balk logic with acquaintance that you have
And practise rhetoric in your common talk . . . (I.i)
So ancient philosophy is just fine, but why not a little pleasure from Ovid as well, and why not put the great legacy of ancient rhetoric to use in our individual and civic lives? Not a bad start for a classical education. One could do worse. Many students do.
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