New Humanists
New Humanists
Ancient Language Institute
Does Education Improve the Soul? | Episode LXI
58 minutes Posted Feb 2, 2024 at 12:00 am.
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Send us a text Michel de Montaigne was a native Latin speaker in modern Europe and yet a great innovator in French letters; among other things, he invited the genre known as the essay. His elegant, searching essays are intended to expose the reality of his own soul - and that of his readers. In "On Schoolmasters' Learning," this most studios of men wonders aloud whether education is actually good for you. After all, look at all the people obsessed with books and yet completely useless for any...