Great Conversation, Classical Education

Both thinkers have a direct line to the sort of great conversation, classical education that we're talking about. And so they were then looking to further that conversation and saying, well, no, we deserve a seat at the table if all this is true. So Du Bois writes, I sit with Shakespeare and he wince his knot. Across the color line, I move arm and arm with ball zack and demas. We're smiling men and welcoming women glide and gilded halls. From out of the caves of evening that swing between the strong-limbed earth and the tracery of stars, I summon Aristotle and Aurelius... "I dwell above the veil"