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In his famous intellectual and spiritual autobiography, Orthodoxy, G.K. Chesterton remarks that the main problem for philosophers is how they can “contrive to be at once astonished at the world and yet at home in it.” The attainment of this double need--for surprise and for security--is, he maintains, at the heart of human happiness.   Modernity poses similar questions to educators who, though at home in classical and medieval thought, nevertheless desire to prepare their students to live in the middle of the world.  Namely: How can we root our students in those timeless truths, so prized by the ancients and furthered by the medievals, while preparing them to embrace the modern world?   How can we form our students to be both contemplative and active, to be comfortable in the country and in the city, so to speak?   In Biblical terms: how can we remain in this modern world of ours, and yet not be of it? To help us begin to answer these questions, we welcome to HeightsCast Dr. Daniel Bernardus, a theoretical