Comments for Fall Semester Returns at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 9 out of 9 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Thu, 20 Jun 2013 03:54:31 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/fall-semester-returns.html#comment-2852 you are NEVER too old!!! learn, study, read & above all Pray everyday for the rest of your life! listen to good teachers on cd or cathoic radio-ave maria radio has some great teachers, st. joseph's communications offers wonderful cds for $3. lots of great avenues to go down. i have found "self-education" far above the typical "education" out there. God gave you a sound mind. give it back to Him and He will re-form your mind. God Bless you! Seat of Wisdom, please pray for us! - debby Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:32:13 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/fall-semester-returns.html#comment-2844 . . . I had had more professors like this author. Where have men like this gone? Fr. Schall, I loved The Catholic Mind. Bless you. - Matt Fri, 04 Sep 2009 02:59:24 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/fall-semester-returns.html#comment-2842 I ask the editor's indulgence to print a comment unrelated to Fr. Schall's fine column. Given the overwhelming and passionate response to the columns on Senator Kennedy, I commend to everyone Cardinal Sean O'Malleys blog comments on the Kennedy funeral (search for "Cardinal Sean's blog"). As Catholics, we are not bound to agree with him, but as the highest ranking prelate in the church who will publicly comment on the subject, he deserves our attention. - Bradley Fri, 04 Sep 2009 02:58:49 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/fall-semester-returns.html#comment-2840 Public schools are the rotten fruit of the rotten roots of modernism. In grade school these kids turn into medicated automatons with auto-responses to an ever incresing list of new neuroses. The humanities have been strip-mined of meaning by scientism and the results are devastating. The antidote is the Western Cannon, delivered by those who know, which ever so rarely is what we loosely call today a ‘teacher.’ Read Fr. Schall's Another Sort of Learning, and read his suggested books. - Achilles Fri, 04 Sep 2009 02:58:06 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/fall-semester-returns.html#comment-2839 I spent 5 years in the philosophy and humanities departments of a state university, and regret wasting my parents' money on the intellectual junk food I was force-fed. I constantly had to go outside required reading lists to get what was needed for education. I seldom encountered any concern for Truth w/a capital 'T', and encountered mostly snickering and apathy among fellow students & professors. Very few care about truth for its own sake anymore... you've hit the nail on the head w/this one!!! - Wil Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:44:01 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/fall-semester-returns.html#comment-2835 This is a beautiful piece, Father Schall. However, I am 24 years old and never attended Catholic school. I was raised in a way that led me perfectly down the path to neo-paganism - in the Chestertonian sense of being aware of God, but worshipping gods instead. Now I've got 2, almost 3, degrees from public Universities and feel as though I have to ask what can I do to get the education I missed? Is it too late to seek what I was deprived of for many years? I'm sure I'm not the only one wondering. - Nomen est Omen? Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:55:10 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/fall-semester-returns.html#comment-2830 After sending three kids to college, one becomes aware that there is little mention of philosophy or the Liberal Arts in general. Teaching is a far cry from the Socratic Method or from "The Idea of a University." Undergraduate education, in order to confront the exigency of employment, has become a utilitarian task formerly associated with professional school. If education is for regurgitation rather than cerebration are we headed for a future of more relativism do to flabby brains? Look around - Willie Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:31:49 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/fall-semester-returns.html#comment-2828 I want to say thank you for pointing out the importance and nature of Philosophy. I graduated from Southern Catholic College with a degree in Philosophy and proud to say that my incredible professor, Dr. Herbert Hartmann, actually had his capstone class read "The Phenomenology of the Human Person." People always tell me they hate philosophy and I try to explain to them its importance because if they only knew what it was, they would know that they already are hardwired to be philosophers. - Ashley Collins Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:31:01 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/fall-semester-returns.html#comment-2827 Right on! Great piece and absolutely true. I rarely meet a person who truly thinks. Many people know what they know like a dog catches fleas. He walks through the woods and the fleas jump on him from here and from there. People pick up their world view by hearing something on TV or from a friend or in a book and never really think through anything. They just accumulate statements and compile them into their world view! Bring back the classics and those who truly can teach them! - Fr Tim Thu, 03 Sep 2009 06:16:21 +0100