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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?

Archive 2008-03-01 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?

Literacies Olde and New Bruce Schauble 2008

Mala a sanguine fervente, deterior a bile assata, pessima ab atra bile putrefacta.

Anatomy of Melancholy 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

Hinc quoque ad leucas duas, est ciuitas Israel, vbi olim morabatur pessima regina Iezabel, quam Dei iudicio equorum vngulis conculcatam, canes ferè vsque ad caluariam comederunt.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

Tartari autem hoc videntes ciuitatem, in qua erat senex obsederunt, eum ceperunt, et pessima morte interfecerunt.

The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

Quinetiam ii sunt indigenarum mores, ut, adveniat modo forma sub pessima morbus, velox et virulentus qualis nusquam alias illico latissime effluat.

An account of the manners and customs of the Aborigines and the state of their relations with Europeans, by Edward John Eyre 2004

Hinc quoque ad leucas duas, est ciuitas Israel, vbi olim morabatur pessima regina Iezabel, quam Dei iudicio equorum vngulis conculcatam, canes fer� vsque ad caluariam comederunt.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Id tantum viderint boni et pij omnes, cuius sit animi, pessima qu鎞ue ab vno aut altera designata, toti genti obijcere.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Id tantum viderint boni et pij omnes, cuius sit animi, pessima quæque ab vno aut altera designata, toti genti obijcere.

A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003