Wednesday, February 15, 2006
A son brings his father joy
, which he had apparently picked from our shelves on his own initiative. The young man is wise beyond his 14 years, for Revel's book -- an essential, crisp history of anti-Americanism -- will provide him with a means for examining the world that is quite at variance with the leftish internationalism that so dominates political discussion in his classrooms and among his friends.1 Comments:
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Dymphna, at
Thu Feb 16, 11:58:00 AM:
Isn't it wonderful how children change before your eyes, becoming their own people? I don't know how or why our son decided at that age to become a military historian, but he did -- getting the books on his own. At the same time, he became an expert bird-watcher/identifier. Go figure...
I reluctantly withdrew him from the Friends' school after middle school because the arts cirriculum degenerated into third world, minority writers of questionable worth. No dead white males, including Shakespeare...what a shame. He was also, rather courageously, the token conservative. He and one history teacher...
He took ROTC as an elective for several semesters just because he loves military history. His asthma keeps him 4F but he loved reading Sun Tzu and John Boyd...but now he's buckled down for his chemistry major's long marathon...
