(Ephesians 5:8)
Parents, leaders, and educators, we have a mission, a duty to lead children's souls toward the Light which will be their guide and their happiness. In order to illuminate the way that lies before each one of us, once a week we invite you to discover some of the words of certain wisemen and witnesses, measuring their worth by the words of St. Thomas Aquinas: “Do not consider the one who speaks, but whatever good you hear from him, confide it to your memory.” (from The Sixteen Ways to Acquire the Treasure of Knowledge by St. Thomas). Happy reading!
“What is youth? It is the age when one wishes to learn.”
LOUIS ARMAND
Industrial engineer, former director of the French train system (1905 – 1971)
“Why do people rely on memory while teaching all the various levels of mathematics? They forget that the use of numbers, signs, equations and formulas is for representing the relations of values. […] In the study of Latin, instead of declining mechanically, it is important for students to see the logical relationship between words (subject, verb, complement). […] When the role of the preposition has not been understood in grammatical analysis, in the later study of logical analysis, the clause will be a hazy notion, and the student will be unsure what is most important in the sentence. The difficulty proper to each subject, taken by the horns, becomes an opportunity for intellectual triumphs and joys. ‘Before, I did everything without understanding,’ said Mériadec who, at seven years of age, already had these unhappy memories of school; ‘Now, I understand everything.’ Since he and his friends would recite lines of Sophocles about joy as a form of recreation, he declared: ‘Understanding is the true source of joy.’”, in Trève de Dieu [God’s Truce].
HÉLÈNE LUBIENSKA DE LENVAL
Pedagogist (1895 – 1972)
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