Comments for The Ending of an Academic Year at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 4 out of 4 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Sat, 18 May 2013 10:14:04 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/the-ending-of-an-academic-year.html#comment-11211 Yes, Fr. Schall, you are correct...Most of us, myself included, never see again or never go back and visit our college professors even though many of them hold an honored and treasured place in our memories. I graduated from college (ND) over 50 years ago, but I still remember with thankfulness and almost with reverence my great teachers there, including Ralph McInerny, Joe Evans, Frank O'Malley, Bernard Norling...Admirable men all. - John McCarthy Fri, 04 May 2012 06:56:30 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/the-ending-of-an-academic-year.html#comment-11194 From Voegelin: Now this education has a very definite content — that is, a content that has already been discussed here in former lectures — the thing that is set forth in the parable of the cave, the periagoge — the turning around from disordered conceptions of life and habits of life and the understanding of the truth of order — turning around toward the Agathon and the vision of the Agathon. This periagoge, this turning around, from the shadowy existence in the cave — you see? — that is Plato’s definition of “education.” Education is — the formulation of the definition is — "the art of turning a man around." That is the definition of education. And that has remained the definition of education [since Plato through] the course of western history right to this day. Anything else, like pure information, to be used for technical instruction, is not education. - stanley Thu, 03 May 2012 04:28:39 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/the-ending-of-an-academic-year.html#comment-11159 Thank you! - Mack Hall Tue, 01 May 2012 15:38:13 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/the-ending-of-an-academic-year.html#comment-11147 One recalls the peroration of Newman's sermon on "The Parting of Friends" “Leave off from wrath, and let go displeasure; flee from evil, and do the thing that is good.” "Do that which is good, and no evil shall touch you.” "Go your way; eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God now accepteth your works; let your garments be always white, and let your head lack no ointment.” [Ps. xxxvii. 8, 27. Tob. xii. 7. Eccles. ix. 7, 8.] And, O my brethren, O kind and affectionate hearts, O loving friends, should you know any one whose lot it has been, by writing or by word of mouth, in some degree to help you thus to act; if he has ever told you what you knew about yourselves, or what you did not know; has read to you your wants or feelings, and comforted you by the very reading; has made you feel that there was a higher life than this daily one, and a brighter world than that you see; or encouraged you, or sobered you, or opened a way to the inquiring, or soothed the perplexed; if what he has said or done has ever made you take interest in him, and feel well inclined towards him; remember such a one in time to come, though you hear him not, and pray for him, that in all things he may know God's will, and at all times he may be ready to fulfil it.” - Michael Paterson-Seymour Tue, 01 May 2012 01:13:47 +0100