“We want to awaken the minds of our children — a task that is not easy in our time, as their minds are often weighed down, not with true knowledge, but with diverse and unordered information which is often incoherent and even contradictory. To be the ones, as we ought to be, to awaken the mind of children, “it suffices to love them and to love communicating the truth to them,” and we must “let that love permeate even our intelligence” so that we become capable of “communicating a truth that sings and then grows.”

Mère Anne-Marie SIMOULIN (1928-2014)
Mother General of the Dominican Teaching Sisters of Fanjeaux.

“Culture gives us the power to escape ourselves. The uncultured man belongs entirely to the present; he is, without reserve and without remission, subject to the tyranny of circumstance. The cultured man, however, always has a part of himself that rises above whatever might happen to him. He never belongs to a single time period or a single place, and the freedom of his mind assures him a sort of ubiquity. At the very moment when his worries and his suffering grow stronger than his patience, he has only to recall the lines of a poet, or to think of the reflections of the wise men who came before him and who faced the same trials, and he can then look on his own troubles from a calm vantage and can smile at what would have irritated him.”

Abel BONNARD (1883-1968)
Writer, Politician, and French Writer