Quote of the Month

These blog entries, season-by-season and year-by-year, form part of a modest effort at Veritas Academy to recover our cultural inheritance; ancient and modern, sacred and secular, philosophical and practical. All are welcome to join us as we remember and, where it’s due, honor those who have gone before us.

“Without [poetic knowledge], our understanding of the world suffers a severe distortion. It is as if we have grown up in an age of one-eyed men who have heard rumors that people could once judge distances, depths, and colors by the use of two eyes, but are now reduced by this flat, prosaic information age that relies on scientific analysis as virtually our only source of knowledge. We are a century of Cyclops.”

“History is a memorial of the mercies of God, so that posterity may know them, remember them, and hymn His praises.”

“There is more to be learned about the nature of man as an individual and as a member of society from a firm grounding in ancient and modern history than from all the ‘social studies’ ever put together by dreamy ‘progressive’ educators.”