Ideas – Slow Literature

Improving Style, Verbal Fluency, and Active Vocabulary – Observations Wanted

May 13, 2012 4 Comments

Why is American literature, though very correct, so flat in style? Why does such a large gap yawn between our passive and actives vocabularies? Why can we not speak even with the same precision we use in writing? Why do Americans talk so stupid? I think one great contributing factor is that education no longer includes recitation. Upon learning lessons in various subjects, our ancestors used to recite these lessons verbatim in order to receive credit. While problems may have existed with this model, the entire disappearance of recitation probably… Read more Improving Style, Verbal Fluency, and Active Vocabulary – Observations Wanted →

A Quick Idea

January 27, 2009 11 Comments

I’m always trying to think of ways to contact and minister to the inner city folk, without hosting Operation This-Time-We’re-Hip-Enough or whatever. What are we, after all, if we can’t help the worst off ones? It struck me that we might hold events in which Priests bless inner-city children. We could let mothers know that they can bring their children to be blessed at a certain time and place. And women and priests can be there, maybe some fathers since most of these kids don’t have any. And the children… Read more A Quick Idea →