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## [The Forgotten Chapter of Why Johnny Can’t Add](https://memoriacollege.substack.com/p/the-forgotten-chapter-of-why-johnny)

_2026-08-10 · Better Things Blog by Memoria College_

Morris Kline’s book, Why Johnny Can’t Add, is an incisive critique of the pedagogy of the New Math movement.

## [Cormac McCarthy's Occult Hypothesis](https://memoriacollege.substack.com/p/cormac-mccarthys-occult-hypothesis)

_2026-06-25 · Better Things Blog by Memoria College_

The Renaissance polymath Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa defined occult qualities as those whose “causes lie hid, and man’s intellect cannot in any way reach and find them out.”1 Though his Three Books of Occult Philosophy or Magic was condemned by Catholic and Protestant authorities, it remained influential in esoteric circles.

## [What would Aristotle think of screens?](https://memoriacollege.substack.com/p/what-would-aristotle-think-of-screens)

_2026-06-11 · Better Things Blog by Memoria College_

Meditations on technology while playing Italian.

## [At This Unique Distance from Isolation](https://memoriacollege.substack.com/p/at-this-unique-distance-from-isolation)

_2026-06-09 · Better Things Blog by Memoria College_

The term “intellect” is often associated with a narrow sector of human life: the academic.

## [When Homer Became Dante’s Contemporary](https://memoriacollege.substack.com/p/when-homer-became-dantes-contemporary)

_2026-05-21 · Better Things Blog by Memoria College_

Lost in the dark forest of his life, standing at the threshold of his cosmos-spanning journey through Hell, Purgatory, and the Paradiso, Dante finds beside him his guide: Virgil.

## [A Tale of Two Thomases](https://memoriacollege.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-two-thomases)

_2026-05-15 · Better Things Blog by Memoria College_

In Knowledge Worthily Received, we considered the paradox that Socrates considered himself “barren of wisdom”—yet was able to help bring forth knowledge in his students.

## [Seeking to Know Ourselves: The Intersection of Greek Philosophy and Divine Revelation in Till We Have Faces](https://memoriacollege.substack.com/p/seeking-to-know-ourselves-the-intersection)

_2026-05-06 · Better Things Blog by Memoria College_

by Astrid Donovan

## [Knowledge Worthily Received](https://memoriacollege.substack.com/p/knowledge-worthily-received)

_2026-05-01 · Better Things Blog by Memoria College_

In the Theaetetus, Socrates describes himself as a midwife of the mind:

## [Mathematics: Key to the Soul](https://memoriacollege.substack.com/p/mathematics-key-to-the-soul)

_2026-04-16 · Better Things Blog by Memoria College_

The mathematician Israel Gelfand once said: “The most important thing a student can get from the study of mathematics is the attainment of a higher intellectual level.”1 We might twist this slightly to say that “the most important thing a human being can get from the study of mathematics is an understanding of oneself as developing intellectually”.

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## [From Screens to the Sun: Plato on the Education of the Soul](https://memoriacollege.substack.com/p/from-screens-to-the-sun-plato-on-the-education-of-the-soul)

_2026-03-24 · Better Things Blog by Memoria College_

Every year, when I teach Plato’s Republic, something subtle happens to the students.