Entries by dpogreba

Beowulf: What Is This?

Hwæt, Hrodulf readnosa hrandeor — Næfde þæt nieten unsciende næsðyrlas! Glitenode and gladode godlice nosgrisele. Ða hofberendas mid huscwordum hine gehefigodon; Nolden þa geneatas Hrodulf næftig To gomene hraniscum geador ætsomne. Þa in Cristesmæsseæfne stormigum clommum, Halga Claus þæt gemunde to him maðelode: "Neahfreond nihteage nosubeorhtende! Min hroden hrædwæn gelæd ðu, Hrodulf!" Ða gelufodon hira […]

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Biblical Allusions Are Everywhere: Even the Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal had an interesting article last week, comparing foreign policy to Jonah's dilemma in the Bible:

Jonah's Dilemma

By MICHAEL B. OREN and MARK GERSON

 This year, as on every Yom Kippur, Jews throughout the world will recite the Book of Jonah, one of the Hebrew Bible's shortest and most enigmatic texts. Jonah is the only Israelite prophet to preach to Gentiles, and the only prophet who clearly hates his job. And yet Jews read the book on their holiest day of the year because of its message of atonement and forgiveness. But Jonah also conveys crucial lessons for all Americans as they grapple with crises in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East and yearn for far-sighted leadership. 

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Philosophy of Education

  E ducation must be about the free flow of ideas in a community of learners and teachers. I find a system of rigid hierarchy, with students as the passive  recipients of knowledge, to be an ineffective, if not counter-productive, technique of instruction. As Yeats wrote, “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of […]

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