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How can we avoid education in the new literacies becoming an example of “corruptio optimi pessima” the corruption of the best is the worst of all?

Literacies Olde and New Bruce Schauble 2008

How can we avoid education in the new literacies becoming an example of “corruptio optimi pessima” the corruption of the best is the worst of all?

Archive 2008-03-01 Bruce Schauble 2008

Quum infirmi sumus, optimi sumus; [3622] for what sick man (as [3623] Secundus expostulates with Rufus) was ever lascivious, covetous, or ambitious? he envies no man, admires no man, flatters no man, despiseth no man, listens not after lies and tales, &c.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Hic finis fuit amici nostri o Eucrates, nostro quidem judicio omnium quos experti sumus optimi et apprime sapientissimi, et justissimi.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

It was truly said, optimi consiliarii mortui: books will speak plain, when counsellors blanch.

The Essays 2007

Yet the thesis, ‘corruptio optimi pessima,’ cannot be maintained generally or without regard to the kind of excellence which is corrupted.

The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

It is precisely what is most elevated that is the most open to abuse and deception — abusus optimi pessimus; and therefore those lofty doctrines have sometimes served as a pretext for the most disgraceful transactions and veritable crimes.

Essays of Schopenhauer 2004

Organa, quia solebant esse optimi Organistæ vel Citharistæ, vt dicebatur mihi.

The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253. 2004

Ipse verò Imperator tendit residens in cella seu camera ædificata super currum grandem forma, fortem robore, nobilem in structura, est cella de ligno Aloes optimi odoris, et parietes cellæ operti in quibusdam locis laminis aureis, quæ et ipsæ distinguuntur gemmis variis, et margaritis.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

It is precisely what is noble and dignified that is most liable everywhere to misuse and fraud: abusus optimi pessimus.

Religion 2004