I’d never heard of this word before reading Pete Hegseth’s and David Goodwin’s Battle For The American Mind.  It’s a Greek word for formative education. While it has no exact English translation, Plato said that a student “is rightly trained in respect of pleasures and pains so as to hate what ought to be hated, […]

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It’s been quite awhile since I’ve written . . . and I suspect it has to do with the reality that this trip has been difficult for me. I came to the Philippines thinking I was going to be drilling lots of (Water For All style) hand-dug wells for “the poorest of the poor.” The