Readiness Is All
Every time I re-read a book of Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, or Aquinas, I shake my head and wonder why I had not seen that before. The answer is most likely that I was not ready…
Every time I re-read a book of Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, or Aquinas, I shake my head and wonder why I had not seen that before. The answer is most likely that I was not ready…
Within the Christian tradition more than a suspicion exists that the more intelligent we are, the more we consider ourselves to be “intellectuals,” the more difficult it is to save our souls. –James V. Schall,…
What I call “another sort of learning” is the finding and reading those seminal books that take us to the truth and order of things. ––James V. Schall, Docilitas: On Teaching and Being Taught
Most universities today are so structured that they have no time for reading Aristotle or Aquinas. James V. Schall, Docilitas: On Teaching and Being Taught, 114