{"id":842,"date":"2002-12-31T19:46:55","date_gmt":"2003-01-01T03:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/12\/31\/a-students-guide-to-liberal-learning\/"},"modified":"2002-12-31T19:46:55","modified_gmt":"2003-01-01T03:46:55","slug":"a-students-guide-to-liberal-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/12\/31\/a-students-guide-to-liberal-learning","title":{"rendered":"A Student\u2019s Guide To Liberal Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just read a mar\u00advelous essay by James Schall<\/a> (a priest and pro\u00adfes\u00adsor at George\u00adtown) called A Stu\u00adden\u00adt\u2019s Guide to Lib\u00ader\u00adal Learn\u00ading<\/a> (link found from the author\u2019s home\u00adpage, which I ran across cour\u00adtesy of the Clare\u00admont Insti\u00adtute<\/a>). It\u2019s sim\u00adply out\u00adstand\u00ading (although I found the style a lit\u00adtle odd at times).<\/p>\n

Schall argues that stu\u00addents must take respon\u00adsi\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty for their own learn\u00ading. Two pas\u00adsages serve as a decent intro\u00adduc\u00adtion:<\/p>\n

When a stu\u00addent arrives at a uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty, espe\u00adcial\u00adly a pres\u00adtige [sic] one, he will prob\u00ada\u00adbly think that what he is about to study will be the best that he can pos\u00adsi\u00adbly come by. He nat\u00adu\u00adral\u00adly expects that what he is get\u00adting is, in fact, his \u201cmon\u00adey\u2019s worth\u201d, as they say.\u2026 This par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar essay is not writ\u00adten for stu\u00addents who have no prob\u00adlems with the sys\u00adtem or who, even less, do not want to find any. They will nev\u00ader know the dif\u00adfer\u00adence. They will nev\u00ader doubt that what they are being taught is any\u00adthing but the high qual\u00adi\u00adty stuff that it is tout\u00aded to be in the brochures and media or, appar\u00adent\u00adly, con\u00adfirmed by the high cost of their tuition. Often how\u00adev\u00ader, from one\u2019s reli\u00adgious or philo\u00adsoph\u00adi\u00adcal back\u00adground, from one\u2019s fam\u00adi\u00adly, per\u00adhaps from a friend or a teacher or from some\u00adthing that one chanced to read or see, a young man or woman will be at least alert and, hope\u00adful\u00adly, begin to sus\u00adpect that all is not well in acad\u00ade\u00admia, or in the cul\u00adture, or, for that mat\u00adter, in one\u2019s own soul.<\/i><\/p>\n

and also<\/p>\n

E. F. Schu\u00admach\u00ader, in his great book, A Guide for the Per\u00adplexed, tells of going to Oxford as a young man, that is, of going to what was thought to be the great\u00adest uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty of his time. He dis\u00adcov\u00adered that what was taught and dis\u00adcussed there bore lit\u00adtle mean\u00ading and truth to him. Schu\u00admach\u00ader was forced to look else\u00adwhere for some sem\u00adblance of an edu\u00adca\u00adtion that dealt with the high\u00adest things, that took seri\u00adous\u00adly what the great philo\u00adsoph\u00adi\u00adcal and reli\u00adgious minds real\u00adly were talk\u00ading about, issues that he already felt press\u00ading in his own soul but were nev\u00ader addressed in the great uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty.<\/i><\/p>\n

And one last obser\u00adva\u00adtion which I found par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly inter\u00adest\u00ading: In spite of most of what a stu\u00addent will read on the top\u00adic, rev\u00ade\u00adla\u00adtion seeks rea\u00adson, is addressed to mind and fos\u00adters it. The Bible sim\u00adply has pro\u00adfound things to tell us, things we clear\u00adly ought to know. We now have stu\u00addents in class, more\u00adover, even those who have gone to church or syn\u00ada\u00adgogue all their lives, who have not the faintest accu\u00adrate idea about what is said in Scrip\u00adture, a work that almost every gen\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion before this era has read care\u00adful\u00adly either to under\u00adstand or to dis\u00adpute or to live by.<\/i><\/p>\n

If you find Schal\u00adl\u2019s essay help\u00adful, you might also want to read my ear\u00adli\u00ader post\u00ading on Becom\u00ading Wise In Col\u00adlege<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just read a mar\u00advelous essay by James Schall (a priest and pro\u00adfes\u00adsor at George\u00adtown) called A Stu\u00adden\u00adt\u2019s Guide to Lib\u00ader\u00adal Learn\u00ading (link found from the author\u2019s home\u00adpage, which I ran across cour\u00adtesy of the Clare\u00admont Insti\u00adtute). It\u2019s sim\u00adply out\u00adstand\u00ading (although I found the style a lit\u00adtle odd at times). Schall argues that stu\u00addents must \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cA Student\u2019s Guide To Lib\u00ader\u00adal Learn\u00ading\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-integration"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-dA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}