The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.

The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.

Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.

Professors of Greek forget or are unaware that Thomas Aquinas, who did not know Greek, was a better interpreter of Aristotle than any of them have proved to be, not only because he was smarter but because he took Aristotle more seriously.

I am not a conservative — neo or paleo. Conservatism is a respectable outlook... I just do not happen to be that animal.

An education, other than purely professional or technical, can even seem to be an impediment.

The sirens sing sotto voce these days, and the young already have enough wax in their ears to pass them by without danger.