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The War of the Three Humanisms: Irving Babbitt and the Recovery of Classical Learning

Irving Babbitt Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?—T.S. Eliot, Choruses from the Rock Irving Babbitt (1865–1933) is not much remembered today, except perhaps through Sinclair Lewis’s snarky naming of the eponymous villain of the satire of mid-American manners and mores, Babbitt, after [...]

Inspired by Liberty & Virtue: The Classical Education of the Founders

By Christian Kopff|2019-07-12T16:20:53-05:00November 15th, 2011|Categories: American Founding, American Republic, Christian Kopff, Classical Education, Classical Learning, Classics, Liberal Learning|Tags: Christian Kopff|

The classical education of the American Founders was “Inspired by Liberty and Virtue.” Winston Elliott suggested the title for this essay and it is a good one. The curriculum that educated so many of the Founding generation was not primarily training for a profession. It aimed at preparing future citizens for a life of ordered [...]