She's alive! She's alive!
Jul. 20th, 2004 11:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
owlI have been quiet lately, but not a lot has been happening here. I have just finished reading the early letters of CS Lewis. What strikes me was how much he had read and how articulate even at the age of fifteen or sixteen. I'm afraid if he met me he would think me very badly-educated, or badly-read at the least. One point is he would have been able to understand my Ulster accent!
But I remember that Mark Studdock in That Hideous Strength had had an education neither classical nor scientific, but merely 'modern', and how scorned it was, and I hope that my own training in physics and mathematics would be as effective in teaching one to think as being able to read Latin and Greek. Although of course it would be nice to be able to do both, but life is not only finite but short and crowded.
But I remember that Mark Studdock in That Hideous Strength had had an education neither classical nor scientific, but merely 'modern', and how scorned it was, and I hope that my own training in physics and mathematics would be as effective in teaching one to think as being able to read Latin and Greek. Although of course it would be nice to be able to do both, but life is not only finite but short and crowded.
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Date: 2004-07-24 02:03 pm (UTC)