Book Description
Through best-selling books and now blockbuster motion pictures, C. S. Lewis’s masterpiece The Chronicles of Narnia has captured the hearts and imaginations of millions of children and adults. When Lewis wrote this acclaimed series more than half a century ago, many considered it a mere children’s allegory and missed the rich spiritual meaning of the Christian faith that Lewis was clearly communicating.

In The Soul of Prince Caspian, Veith reveals how Lewis takes on the modern mindset that has literally forgotten Christ just as Narnia has forgotten Aslan. As Veith unlocks the story of Prince Caspian, you’ll discover how Lewis’s other writings add depth and clarity to his message. And you’ll see that, while Prince Caspian may be about the fantastic land of Narnia, it’s also about your world.

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A blue-ribbon presidential panel charged with figuring out what has gone wrong with math education in this country. Here is a summary of the findings. They include this observation:

Children badly need both automatic recall of math facts and understanding of big concepts, in effect declawing both sides in the decades-long “math wars.”

This points to a fallacy that seems everywhere in education and elsewhere: the FALSE DICHOTOMY. How would anyone think there needs to be a CHOICE between EITHER knowing material OR understanding it? To be educated about any subject you need BOTH! You also need to be able to apply it yourself.

(Note that the whole range of what education must be is fulfilled in the paradigm of classical education: grammar [knowing]; logic [understanding]; rhetoric [personal application].)

What are some other false dichotomies? (I’ll get you started: faith & works; orthodoxy & mission. . . .)

We’ve been

Superdelegates as Hamlet 

The idea is that the Superdelegates are having trouble making up their mind.

What Shakespeare characters are the various candidates and other players?

HT: Jackquelyn