Let Us Now Praise Great Teachers
Victor Davis Hanson, a professor and farmer from California, now I think retired from both professions, is worth reading as he aims at the truth and getting there as quickly as he can with an unusual degree of fluency in the language. Finding and then recognizing the really good teachers among us has long been a difficult process. We are better at recognizing the bad, but alas, both observations usually require the passage of a certain amount of time, of which there is never enough. A cluster of recent short essays can be found at this Pajamas Media website. His books can be found here. And of course, some of them are available at Borders or B&N. Just an idea in case you are feeling guilty about not contributing your part to Black Friday, our merchants’ desperate efforts to get profitable.
