Richard Mitchell

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“There is only one Education, and it has only one goal: the freedom of the mind. Anything that needs an adjective, be it civics education, or socialist education, or Christian education, or whatever-you-like education, is not education, and it has some different goal. The very existence of modified “educations” is testimony to the fact that their proponents cannot bring about what they want in a mind that is free. An “education” that cannot do its work in a free mind, and so must “teach” by homily and precept in the service of these feelings and attitudes and beliefs rather than those, is pure and unmistakable tyranny.”

— Richard Mitchell

BIRTHDAYS:

121 Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor who reigned from 161 to 180, initially as co-emperor with Lucius Verus until the latter’s death in 169, and is recognized for embodying Stoic philosophy through his private Greek-language reflections compiled posthumously as Meditations.

1567 Nicolas Formé, French composer. O salutaris Hostia II.

1711 Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont (French writer/author, known for Beauty and the Beast.

1785 John James Audubon, American ornithologist/naturalist and painter, The Birds of America.

1796 Auguste Mathieu Panseron, French composer. Sainte Cécile

1798 Eugène Delacroix, French painter and etcher.

1865 Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Finnish painter.

1900 Charles F. Richter, American physicist and seismologist, developed the Richter scale.

1912 A. E. van Vogt, Canadian sci-fi author

1929 Richard Mitchell, American professor of English at Glassboro State College (later Rowan University) and author renowned for his incisive critiques of linguistic imprecision, educational bureaucracy, and the decline of critical thinking in public schooling.

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