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From TheStar.com   These two immortal modernists were born on the same day, 200 years ago   Neither Abraham Lincoln nor Charles Darwin put much stock in coincidence themselves, but you have to wonder what these two 19th century men, … Continue reading →

Hutchins’s models of a collegiate education were the medieval Trivium—rhetoric, grammar, and logic—and Quadrivium—arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music. Technical knowledge was to be strenuously avoided: “Facts are the core of an anti-intellectual curriculum,” he observed. “Facts do not solve problems. … Continue reading →