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Poem: “But I am Growing Old and Indolent,” by Robinson Jeffers 

Statement of the Whole: 

It seems we live in a utilitarian or practical time when education wants to cut straight to the “facts.”  So why spend so much time in school learning about things that are just made up?  Jason and Steve defend the use of fiction in the classroom as one of the great moral tools in the cultivation of wisdom and virtue. 

Books: 

Anything by Wendell Berry 

Wallace Stegner: Angle of Repose