(Ephesians 5:8)
Parents, leaders, and educators, we have a mission, a duty to lead children's souls toward the Light which will be their guide and their happiness. In order to illuminate the way that lies before each one of us, once a week we invite you to discover some of the words of certain wisemen and witnesses, measuring their worth by the words of St. Thomas Aquinas: “Do not consider the one who speaks, but whatever good you hear from him, confide it to your memory.” (from The Sixteen Ways to Acquire the Treasure of Knowledge by St. Thomas). Happy reading!
“Teaching is a preparation for life. Learning to think well is, without a doubt, the best preparation.”
Henri CHARLIER (1883-1975)
Painter, sculptor, writer
“Ah! Gentleman, there is a problem in the new curricula! The young are no longer being raised to their true potential if they derive less pleasure or take less pride in understanding a tragedy by Racine, a fable by La Fontaine, or a letter by Louis Veuillot, than past generations did. The barbarian ideologists who call this “progress” are abusing words! Experience has already proven that generations who have not learned Latin are poor when it comes to writing French. A hundred knowledgeable people have expressed this time and time again, but not one of them more eloquently than the administrator of one of our big railroad companies who said to me recently, “No one knows how to draft a letter or keep records anymore. In order to maintain normal business correspondence, we are obliged to hire people with a Master’s degree in liberal arts!” I think that soon those with a Master’s degree will no longer suffice because they too are becoming more and more specialized. We’ll be looking to hire people with a Graduate’s degree in liberal arts!”
René BAZIN (1853-1932)
Writer
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