Comments for Another Sort of Learning at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 13 out of 13 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Sun, 19 May 2013 21:34:46 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/another-sort-of-learning.html#comment-3166 One of my favorite books by one of my favorite authors. And what a nice present -- an essay about it from Schall himself! Read it! The book recommendations alone are worth the price. - Gail F Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:08:19 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/another-sort-of-learning.html#comment-3159 Forgive me for being autobiographical, but this article rings so true about my life: I spent my Masters years (in Engineering mind you, so I was in less danger of relativism) devouring Chesterton, whom I credit with teaching me how to think and to love God and his Church with all my mind. Now in PhD, I have followed on to Fr. Ronald Knox, some Vaclav Havel, Mgr. Cormac Burke, and may others, courtesy of my university library and gutenberg.org - I found these hidden gems that teach you the truth. - Sebastian S. Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:46:42 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/another-sort-of-learning.html#comment-3158 'Another Sort of Learning' is a fabulous book - highly recommended. It opens worlds to you that you never knew existed. Fr Schall's essays are thought-provoking, but the book lists are what brings one back to his pages again and again. I am not sure that God calls all of us to an intellectual life, but we are all better off having sought truth in our lives (not to mention avoiding television). This is the only book I have read that I consider a life-changer. Please try it. - Tom Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:45:19 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/another-sort-of-learning.html#comment-3155 In regard to your comment that the Great Books produce skepicism, I believe they do-except at Thomas Aquinas College. Two of my sons attended there and brought to my attention a booklet by one of the tutors, which said that without a standard, a context, the books are merely a set of opinions and can lead to confusion. With a Catholic context the books enlighten-Aristotle was right, Marx was wrong. Also the books can be overrated. The essential truths of life are found outside side of them. - Dan McNeill Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:31:27 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/another-sort-of-learning.html#comment-3154 A treasure trove of sources that enlighten, challenge, and inspire the Christian intellect. This source and its intellectual underpinnings provide a much-needed addition to the public debate in favor of spiritually and intellectually robust Christianity. Kudos to Father Schall. May he write for years to come... - Tod Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:52:33 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/another-sort-of-learning.html#comment-3153 This is, genuinely, a potentially life-changing book - without any Oprahist connotations whatsoever. Read it and all you can from him. - Jitpring Sat, 10 Oct 2009 08:57:30 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/another-sort-of-learning.html#comment-3152 Fr. Schall, thank you from all my heart for writing this book. I cannot wait to read it. I have been out of college 2 years now, (I attended Northeastern in Boston), and even before graduation, it became painfully apparent to me that nowhere was I being taught where and how to find the Truth! This bothered me greatly. I felt utterly alone. Then I read C.S. Lewis, who suggested that we might begin by asking of great books: is it true? Would that God raise more scholars like him and yourself! - Chris Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:52:32 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/another-sort-of-learning.html#comment-3151 Fr. Schall, wonderful set of ideas! ASoL is a beautiful book, read all you can from Fr. Schall. The underlying assumption of this wonderful essay is that one is able to read. C.S. Lewis' essay in God on the Dock, "Meditation in a Toolshed," is worth much reflection. It suggests that we use the words read as a lens to see through, rather than what has been the result of scientism, looking at books; look along the beam, not at it. Most U Educated people can't read anymore. They would disagree. - Achilles Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:11:42 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/another-sort-of-learning.html#comment-3149 I've now taught at 5 different universities. Unfortunately, too many of them are trying to be buddies to undergraduates rather than having moral and intellectual leadership. If I were a conspiracy theorist, I'd think there was a deliberate movement to keep students from the Truth. Oh, wait, I guess I am. - Jennifer Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:07:50 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/another-sort-of-learning.html#comment-3147 Good piece, father. Like Bishop Sheen, I prefer nonfiction over novels, but I heartily recommend Taylor Caldwell's Great Lion of God (about St. Paul), and Dear and Glorious Physician (about St. Luke), which were highly influential in turning me from agnosticism to Christianity. Caldwell's novel, Pillar of Iron, about Cicero, was also is a great read. Alas, these days it seems most younger folks rarely get beyond the back of a cereal box to expand their horizons. - Joseph Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:08:41 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/another-sort-of-learning.html#comment-3146 This book has been for me something more wonderful than a fountain of youth. It has been a fountain of wisdom. Thank you. - R A Sheetz Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:08:09 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/another-sort-of-learning.html#comment-3145 Father, we have been wisely told that happiness comes from the pursuit of the truth of "what is." Academics today seems to be concerned with the idea that truth is merely a mental construct. In your book you note: Both Socrates and Christ were killed by the best states of their times, which leads us to suspect that truth may in fact be more insecure in democracies than even in tyrannies, where it is frankly recognized as dangerous. Do we have the freedom to be tempted by the untruth? - Willie Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:23:29 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/another-sort-of-learning.html#comment-3143 To play the devil’s advocate amongst such company is either an act of bravery or foolishness—others can judge for themselves—but one strength of any competent university should be its introduction of students to books and ideas they would not choose for themselves, that they did not know existed. That is the great benefit of Fr Schall’s lists: an autodidact’s guide for the expansion of his interests and thus his mind. And ‘the wittiest subtitle I have ever written’, is readily apparent! - Stephen MacLean Fri, 09 Oct 2009 06:30:54 +0100