Another sort of learning : selected contrary essays on the completion of our knowing, or, how to finally acquire an education while still in college, or anywhere else ... / James V. Schall.
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Description
299 p. ; 21 cm.
Bibliography
Bibliography: p. 275-299.
Contents
Another sort of learning -- Why read? -- What a student owes his teacher -- Grades -- On teaching the important things -- On teaching the political thought of Plato -- Straining for the highest things -- The supernatural destiny of man -- On doctrine and dignity: from "heretics" to "orthodoxy" -- On evil and the responsibility for suffering -- The obscure heart of ideology -- The mortality of immortal men -- Oddness and sanity -- The recovery of permanent things -- What is a lecture? -- On devotion -- On prayer and fasting for bureaucrats -- On the seriousness of sports -- On the difficulty of believing and not believing -- The humanities and the "basis of excellence" -- On spiritual and intellectual life.