"Words are one way we leave tracks in the world, Sol. Maybe one day you will write a book, like Olaus did, or Molly Thorn. And people will read it, like I've been reading to you. And they will know that you were here, and a little about what you were like."
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Schall on Advice for Students
My basic advice to students is to begin building their own libraries—how the computer will affect this library building, I am not certain. Still, anyone with a taste for wonder—not all, apparently, have it—should learn to haunt used book stores, even more than stores that sell new books.
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Lewis on “Age Specific” Books
No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally (and often far more) worth reading at the age of fifty — except, of course, books of information. The only imaginative works we ought to grow out of are those which it would have been better not to have read at all.
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On Liberals and Liberal Education
Recent articles of note from the world wide web.
