Human flourishing, however, does not happen in a vacuum; it does so within a context. Kipling wrote: If you can keep your head when all about you...

Insight for Teachers: "We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most human, is still soaked with the sense of exile.” -J.R.R. Tolkien

"Every great literature has always been allegorical--allegorical of some view of the whole universe. The lliad is only great because all life is a battle; the Odyssey because all life is a journey; the Book of Job because all life is a riddle." G. K. Chesterton. The Defendant. London: Brimley Johnson, 1901.