private — idios — separate, robbery
parochial — para+oikos — beside+household
"The essence of the Sewanee tradition has been to educate a Christian or a gentleman, but preferably a Christian gentleman, who will go back home or out into the world ... and be what he is. ... He will keep private things private and public things public. This is the basis of order. ... His mind will be a trained instrument which can respond to any kind of experience. He will let information go through him like a flux, but digest his learning. ... This kind of education is aristocratic. It can't be democratic. We've never had a democracy in this country. We once had a republic. Since the Civil War we've had a plutocracy. It calls itself a democracy, but it is customary to betray in the name of what is being betrayed. The union was destroyed in the name of defending it."
— Andrew Lytle, From Eden to Babylon: A Christian University and the World, 1964
What is POWER?
Locke's Of Power is always a good starting point. ...
more coming ...
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