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April 21, 2013
Like, You Know
Posted by gerardvanderleun at April 21, 2013 9:30 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
Your Say
"I have nothing personally invested in my own opinion" reminded me of something, and a quick search of my archives turned up this remark from R.R. Reno at First Things:
"In my experience, although the modern university is full of trite, politically correct pieties, for the most part its educational culture is cautious to a fault. Students are trained—I was trained—to believe as little as possible so that the mind can be spared the ignominy of error. The consequences: an impoverished intellectual life. The contemporary mind very often lives on a starvation diet of small, inconsequential truths, because those are the only points on which we can be sure we’re avoiding error."
We sound timid because we ARE timid.
Posted by: RC2 at April 21, 2013 6:02 PM