University Education

Angela Knobel, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Philosophy joins former President Thomas Hibbs on a @HumanEcologyCUA panel to discuss the university and education under contemporary pressures.

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Perhaps It Is Too Late to Implement

CWR: St. Newman’s Idea of a Catholic University: An Alma Mater, not a foundry, mint, or treadmill by Tracey Rowland

As we celebrate the canonization of John Henry Newman this week and re-read his publications on this subject, the gulf between his vision of Catholic education and what we currently have is stark.

Alasdair Macintyre - Newman's idea of a university

Two from Medievalist.net

The Making of Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae - Bernard McGinn



Science and the Medieval University

Zenit: Pope's Address at Sacred Heart Catholic University
"Love alone guarantees the humanity of research"

More from Medievalists.net on the medieval university.

Scholasticism and philosophy

It should be obvious to educated people that the art of teaching and the art of writing essays are two separate habits, and that the possession of knowledge does not mean that one can write well. Neither is the converse true, that one who is able to write also possesses knowledge, much less wisdom. We may reject the rather dry and bare, terse writing of the scholastics, but can it be denied that their treatises are generally more clear than contemporary essays? How much of the essay's being the standard for academic writing is linked to the 19th century model of the research university and the rise of modern literature, and how much to Renaissance ideals?

As teachers of philosophy, what do we seek to impart first? Reasoned-out knowledge? Or the art of writing an essay?