It’s no secret that I hope all our students and all of our learning community members will WRITE! Here is the advice from Fr. Hardon that helped me to become a Catholic writer.
Read MoreSocratic questioning, proving a point with evidence, digging beneath the surface for hidden meanings, restating an opponent’s position well, persuasion and debate – is a sort of foreign language to many of today’s students.
Read MoreCal Newport, in Deep Work cites A. G. Sertillanges, which is enough to recommend his book to me! Among Newport’s insights, are his observation that boredom is quite valuable for concentration training, that multitasking frays your capacity for forward attention,
Read MoreThe ‘danger’ of life in a learning community is that your reading list is ever expanding further than your expected lifetime! That’s also the delight, so here are some of our trustee, faculty, and friends’ reading lists for the coming year to add to your own.
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