Andrew R. Castro

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@baltimoresun The classical Christian school movement is the best thing happening in education right now. This clip certainly tries to peg these schools as radical and subversive, loosely tying them to conservative political and religious leaders.

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It was great to be with Governor @Bob_Ehrlich and his wife, Kendel, at the Classic Learning Test offices this Wednesday! @CLT_Exam

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"All sin is addiction." - @BishopBarron in conversation with @TheoVon

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"Leaders define reality with a vision."

- @OsGuinness

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"He [man] has always lost his way; but now he has lost his address."

- G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

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@LarryChappGS22 Love Cunningham! Your previous interview with him is how I found your show.

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Rosten's Law:

"First-rate men hire first-rate men; second-rate men hire third-rate men."

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@therightfrankd @jennfrey Good one! 😆

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"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt."

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Paraphrasing Charles Murray (American political scientist), the problem with the elite is they don't preach what they practice.

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Russell Kirk’s "The Roots of American Order" demonstrates the value of a classical education. The Framers of the American Constitution did not invent our republican order from nothing; they were steeped in the Greco-Roman tradition, perceiving both its wisdom and its faults.

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"Thou shalt not kick against the pricks." - Oceanus to Prometheus

The above phrase, made famous by the New Testament in Paul's conversion, is a very old Greek idiom. The Greek tragedy, Prometheus Bound was written in the 5th Century BC.

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"Waste no pains where thy endeavor nothing profiteth." - Kratos, Prometheus Bound

This reads like a line Ben Franklin would steal for Poor Richard's Almanack

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"Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistakes of our own period. And that means the old books." - #CSLewis

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Where did the phrase, "pursuit of happiness", come from before The Declaration of Independence? It can be found repeatedly used in John Locke's "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding" (Bk. 2, Chap. 21, "Of Power"). Jefferson & Franklin both knew this work well.

- @RosenJeffrey

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John Adams quoting Algernon Sidney from "Discourses Concerning Government"

#algernonsidney #quote

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"I attack ideas. I don't attack people. Some very good people have some very bad ideas." - Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia

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The Sad Truth! From Jeffrey Rosen:

"I've had the privilege of a wonderful liberal arts education... but despite my elaborate education, I'd never encountered the great works of Greek, Roman, and Enlightenment moral philosophy that offered guidance about how to live a good life."

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Thomas Jefferson quoting Cicero in a letter to Amos J. Cook, January 21, 1816

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Ben Franklin's motto for his own moral perfection project:

"O philosophy, guide of life! O searcher out of virtue and exterminator of vice! One day spent well and in accordance with thy precepts is worth an immortality of sin."

- Cicero, Tusculan Disputations, bk. 5, chap. 2