New Yorker Cartoon: High School Schedule

Dear Boo,

I think you'll enjoy this cartoon: http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/01/new-york-cartoon-high-school-schedule.html

Currently, a debate is taking place in "conservative" circles concerning contemporary high school students' failure to learn.

Having taught at Orange High for a full month last spring -- and reflecting on my own high school career at Aquinas Institute from 1960 to 1965-- I think your generation knows gobs more stuff than we did.  http://www.aquinasinstitute.com/site/default.aspx?PageID=1

I pass this judgment as an intelligent fellow who ranked 7th in my senior class of 350.

Since contemporary "conservatives" are essentially alarmists, they have, in their modern degeneracy, developed a rhetorical style whereby they "pick a principle" and then determine how to frighten themselves at its presumed abuse.

This epistemological error dispels proportion and perspective, two conjoined characteristics whose loss -- in Aquinas' view -- is the ubiquitous root of sinful behavior.

"Thomas Aquinas On American Conservatives' Continual Commission Of Sin"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/12/thomas-aquinas-on-american.html

"Conservatives Scare More Easily Than Liberals"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/07/conservatives-scare-more-easily-than.html

Love

Dman

PS By the way... Here is Wikipedia's University of Toronto page. It will orient your investigation of my alma mater. Perhaps we can visit UT summer.