Education is Purgatorial
How to Read Dante's Purgatory as a Parable for Education
*These remarks were delivered as part of the Keynote for Great Hearts National Symposium for Classical Education (February 21, 2025) See the YouTube Here.
Recently I was teaching Dante—we’re finishing Inferno this week—and the relativism of the class made me laugh. Students were castigating Dante as a proud poet who spitefully just stuck people in hell a…
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