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Southern Education

An Interview with Clyde Wilson, Part II

By Dissident Mama

I hope you all enjoyed Part 1 of my interview with Dr. Clyde Wilson. In this installment, the Carolina lion talks about his years in Chapel Hill, decimates modern higher “education,” explains his journalistic background,… »

  • Clyde Wilson
  • Dissident Mama
  • Southern Education
  • Southern Tradition

Education and the South

By Robert Hoyle

Theories of education in any land are never easily divorced from the prevailing ideas regarding civics and economics. Education’s function, particularly toward the young, will become merely to render them fit to partake in the… »

  • Robert Hoyle
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern Education
  • Southern Tradition

The Culture of Thomas Jefferson

By Fred Irland

To the student of the Classics the most interesting thing in the Library of Congress at Washington is the considerable remnant of the library of Thomas Jefferson. On October 6, 1820, Jefferson wrote to his… »

  • Fred Irland
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern Education
  • Thomas Jefferson

On Remaining Humble in Modern Academia

By Jonathan Harris

After reading Richard Weaver’s monumental work Ideas Have Consequences last semester I was struck with one characterization of the “ideal man” that has since been shaping the way I look at my own academic future.… »

  • Clyde Wilson
  • Jonathan Harris
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern Education

A College Boy’s Observation of General Lee

By John B. Collyar

A few years after General Lee accepted the presidency of the then Washington College, I was sent to be entered in the preparatory department, along with an older brother who was to enter college. The… »

  • John B. Collyar
  • Robert E. Lee
  • Southern Education

A Useful (and Pro-Southern) Book for Today’s College or University Student

By Michael Potts

A Review of The Elements of Academic Success by Gene Kizer, Jr. Charleston: Charleston Athenaeum Press, 2014. Reviewed by Michael Potts I wish I had read a book like Gene Kizer Jr.’s The Elements of… »

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  • Michael Potts
  • Southern Education

My Son, Get Wisdom, Get Understanding

By Thomas Cooper

Address delivered to the graduates of the South Carolina College, December 1821. Gentlemen, YOU are now about to quit the precincts of the College, and to enter upon the commerce of the world. Your education… »

  • Southern Education
  • Southern History
  • Thomas Cooper

European Influences in the South

By Edwin Mims

This essay is a chapter from The South in the Building of the Nation series, History of the Social Life. The solidarity of public opinion in the South has been so often commented upon that… »

  • Cavaliers
  • Edwin Mims
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern Education
  • Southern History
  • Thomas Jefferson

What’s Holding Alabama Back?

By Tom Daniel

As I watched my local Montgomery, Alabama news station this morning, I saw that question pop up on the screen. What’s holding Alabama back? Wait, what? What do you mean by “holding back?” In the… »

  • Southern Education
  • Southern Humor
  • Tom Daniel
  • Yankees

Old South Education before the War to Destroy Southern Civilization

By George Crockett

In the Old South, only those children whose parents thought they needed education, attended school; many did not.  Of those who did not, many were taught at home to read or to read and write. … »

  • George Crockett
  • Southern Education
  • Southern History
  • Southern Literature

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