“The reason mental discipline is difficult is that we live in a fallen world, and God has cursed the ground so that thorns and thistles grow there. Laziness and sin both make people want to coast downhill. Chesterton once said that Satan fell by the force of gravity. We like to relax our Latin standards for the same reason that we prefer riding our bicycles downhill as opposed to uphill . . . [there is a problem with] our instant mind-set where students want to get all their multicultural experiences out of a can, ready to be heated up in the microwave” (The Case for Classical Christian Education, p. 140).
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