Education and Virtue

"Education is properly understood as the care and perfection of the soul. Excellence (arete) is not primarily excellence of skill but excellence of virtue." ~ Richard Gamble on Plato's view of education, The Great Tradition

Pooh's Profundity - Growing Up

Just more proof that A. A. Milne was a brilliant observer of human nature.

By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself, “There is no hurry. We shall get there someday.” But all the little streams higher up in the Forest went this way and that, quickly, eagerly, having so much to find out before it was too late.
There was a broad track, almost as broad as a road, leading from the Outland to the Forest, but before it come come to the Forest, it had to cross this river. So, where it crossed, there was a wooden bridge, almost as broad as a road, with wooden rails on each side of it.

~ The House at Pooh Corner, by A.A. Milne

Austen characters on facebook?

If it were so...

HT Claire Escobar