The Power of a Man on the Moon Mindset
I recently watched the movie First Man, about Neil Armstrong and the United States’ achievement of landing men on the moon and safely returning them to Earth. This movie reminded me of the tremendous effort undertaken to meet the challenge President John F....
A Greek System of Education for Masons?
Paideia (pi-daya) is the classical Greek system of education and training, which came to include gymnastics, grammar, rhetoric, poetry, music, mathematics, geography, natural history, astronomy and the physical sciences, history of society and ethics, and philosophy....
Are Your Words Consistent with the Art of Rhetoric?
This past week, I read an opinion expressed about a speaker’s content at a university’s commencement speech. The writer used the word rhetor. The word rhetor shares the same roots as rhetoric. Rhetoric, as we know, is the art of using language to affect...