(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!
“We don’t teach what we want; I would even say that we don’t teach what we know or what we think we know — we only teach, and we are only able to teach what we are.”
Jean JAURÈS (1859-1914)
Politician
“- Sir, you massacre Virgil! you are ravaging the Aeneid! Imagine making misceri into a fifth dactyl! Misceri is composed entirely of long stresses, young man, and this is 8th grade. It’s absolutely scandalous, but I’m not going to let you get away with it. You, Sir, are a dunce. Sit down, Sir, and that line you will scan for me 20 times, in writing. Listen carefully to what I say, you will not copy it, you will scan it in writing : Intere-/a ma-/gno mis-/sceri / murmure / pontum. Putting murmure before misceri! Distorting a line of Virgil! Why, whatever is this world we are living in?”
Abbé BERTO (1900-1968)
Priest of the diocese of Vannes, Tertiary Dominicain founder of the Institute of the Dominicans of the Holy Ghost
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