Great Books and Undergraduate Education -
by Michael M. Jordan
“The end of higher education is the acquisition of wisdom and virtue and the serious pursuit of knowledge and truth — this is the older model of education. Reading the Great Books helps us to get to this end. It is a good means to a good end.”
The Revival of Latin -
by Hilaire Belloc
“The problem presented is simply this: There is a common civilization, abominably warped by the religious revolution and ruin miscalled “The Reformation,” but still in the main one thing. There is another name for this civilization. It used to be called Christendom; it is now sometimes vaguely called “the white races,” or, more exactly, Europe. At any rate there is one unmistakable thing which, in spite of a badly diseased and divided social state, is still in the main the common descendant of the old Christian culture. Its dress, its manner of living, its main social ideas are the same.”
The University: Reform if You Would Preserve -
by Paul J Cella
“...we might almost say of a society which, by lassitude, heresy or avarice, forces many men to become autodidacts: “there is a society oppressed by barbarism.” ... "Misfortune will be the lot of Americans for some time to come — at least for those Americans who believe that “education” contains a notion of diligent immersion in, and exploration and veneration of one’s own civilization. "
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