“Anyone can learn from a good teacher. The real test is being able to learn from a bad one.”
J. Budziszewski “Underground Thomist” Feb. 25, 2019
Here’s a video from the past. It’s a talk I gave at the Augustine College Summer Seminar in June 2019 so I’m tardy making it available. And it’s about the Middle Ages which were, far too many people think, necessarily awful because they were long ago and old is bad and new is good. In fact there are a great many modern horrors that would have appalled people in the Middle Ages and one of them is widespread ignorance about the period.
Sorry to take so long to get around to editing and posting it. Life got in the way.
"If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we’d be too simple to understand it."
Emerson Pugh, quoted on www.hound-dog-media.com
“The sincere controversialist is above all things a good listener.”
G.K. Chesterton, quoted in an editorial in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 11 #4 (Jan.-Feb. 2008).
“Dare to be naive."
R. Buckminster Fuller, quoted on www.goodreads.com/quotes/37173-dare-to-be-naive
“The aim of argument is differing in order to agree; the failure of argument is when you agree to differ.”
G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News April 1, 1911, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 8 #2 (Oct.-Nov. 2004)
“Nobody really believes in anything anymore, and everyone spends his life in frenzied work and frenzied play so as not to face the fact, not to look into the abyss.”
Allan Bloom The Closing of the American Mind (discussing Nietzsche’s views)
“Human nature, Thucydides argued, is constant and hence predictable.”
R.M. Ogilvie in the Introduction to Livy The Early History of Rome, adding that Livy used that insight as "the framework of his history."