“What makes humanities students different isn’t their power of expression, their capacity to frame an argument or their ability to do independent work. Yes, these are valuable qualities, and we humanities teachers try to cultivate them. But true humanities students are exceptional because they have been, and are, engaged in the activity that Plato commends …
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The interview recently given by the Pope is most interesting. Here is the first Jesuit Pope for centuries, a subtle and clever man, who has kept his real feelings hidden well enough to be elected. The Jesuits were known as a the “storm troopers of the Counter-Reformation”, and here they are again, trying to combat …
“I believe in Spinoza’s god, who reveals himself in the lawful harmony of all that exists, not in a god who concerns himself in the fate and doings of mankind”. Albert Einstein Einstein wondered at the intricate rationality of the universe. It persuaded him that “something” must have laid down the basic structure, physics and …
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination spans the world”. Albert Einstein Children are not born with imagination. They have to be taught it and encouraged in it by teachers, by fairy tales and tales of bravery, daring and so on. They have to be read to, told true stories, encouraged to …
At the core of ethics: a command that one try to imagine what it might be like to be someone else. (Alain de Botton). This is the very basis of collective human life. Without empathy and the ability to put yourself in other people’s shoes, all you have is a large collection of selfish and …
