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Good Habits for Individuality

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 14:08:57 +0000

Rodin's The Thinker This essay is part 2 of "Living Wisely in a Foolish World." It's pleasant to regard ourselves as individuals from birth, having formed our own ideas, attitudes, perspectives, preferences, likes and dislikes, and so on, completely uninfluenced by others. Pleasant, but mistaken! We were receiving influences by hearing and touch [...]

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What Catholics Can Learn from Buddhists

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Sat, 27 Apr 2019 16:51:37 +0000

For centuries Catholics were discouraged, and even forbidden, from reading non-Catholic works lest their faith be undermined. Such precautions were reasonable when the laity were largely uneducated and even illiterate. Though that is no longer the case, it remains prudent to exercise care in what we read and view. Yet even so, learning about other [...]

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Education’s Failing Grade

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 16:47:13 +0000

In 2016, Minneapolis scholar Katherine Kersten reported that public schools were the most dangerous places in St. Paul, MN. The use of obscene language, overturning of furniture and trash cans, and fistfights had become common in grade schools, she noted, and even worse behaviors—including physical attacks on teachers, death-threats, and multi-student riots—were occurring in high [...]

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Humor and Learning

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Thu, 20 Mar 2014 14:06:48 +0000

Why do many teachers have the attitude that learning is such serious business that any hint of humor undermines it? I discovered a partial answer some years ago in a restaurant outside Wellesley, Massachusetts. It may have been an old library—it certainly looked like one, with bookcases lining the walls and dividing the aisles. While [...]

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