Plutarch (Concerning Music) wrote of the ancient Greeks:
“They deemed it requisite by the assistance of music to form and compose the minds of youth to what was decent, sober and virtuous; believing the use of music beneficially efficacious to incite all serious actions.”
Does the musical literature we give our students in school today create decent, sober and virtuous young people?
With 500 TV channels, movies and sporting events beyond counting, should it be the school system's job to provide the public with more entertainment?
Pythagoras (580-500 BC) has been judged by Walther Kirchner (1960) as "one of the most outstanding mathematicians of all times," but by Heraclitus (c. 500 BC) as "the chief captain
Thales (640-546 BC) famously observed, "A lack of culture is a serious thing." Would he be uncomfortable today in America?
