Question

An essay on this subject quotes a Scythian philosopher to open a section on the value of cold, and endorses wearing shoes thin enough to let in water. That essay on this subject, which originated as a series of letters to Edward Clarke, popularized the English translation “a sound mind in a sound body” for a phrase of Juvenal’s. Another treatise on this subject attacks La Fontaine’s “The Crow and the Fox” and contains an oft-excerpted passage claiming that the “duties of (*) religion are independent of the institutions of men.” A treatise that included the scandalous “Creed of the Savoyard Vicar” (10[1])discusses this (10[1])subject, about which John Locke wrote “Some Thoughts.” (10[1])For 10 points, Jean-Jacques Rousseau expounded his theories of what practice in his novelistic treatise Emile? ■END■

ANSWER: education [or teaching or learning; accept pedagogy or instruction; prompt on child-raising; accept Some Thoughts Concerning Education]
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Halle Friedmanmeet the new weird, same as the old weirdUG Championship Players (and Mazin)10010
Adam Silvermannats is supposed to mean you all have gone softWatching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Again10210
Noah SheidlowerColumbia BOlmo (Bonus) Bagelry11010

Summary

2023 BHSU @ Northwestern02/25/2023Y6100%0%17%110.17
2023 BHSU @ Maryland03/11/2023Y3100%0%67%119.00
2023 BHSU @ Berkeley03/18/2023Y3100%33%67%99.33
2023 BHSU @ Yale04/08/2023Y3100%0%0%104.00
2023 BHSU @ Sheffield04/15/2023Y2100%0%0%103.00
2023 BHSU @ Waterloo04/15/2023Y3100%0%67%119.00