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“Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law.”
― St. Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

“The last thing one settles in writing a book is what one should put in first.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pascal's Pensées

“Perhaps one of the more profound observations that Lewis makes is that education is inescapably enculturation; education is a means by which one is initiated into a culture, into a particular way of being human.”
― Steve Turley, Classical vs. Modern Education: A Vision from C.S. Lewis

“How difficult it is to submit anything to the judgment of another, without prejudicing his judgment by the manner in which we submit it!”
― Blaise Pascal, Pascal's Pensées

“The Christian worldview has thoroughly developed the shape, tone, contour, and content of the Liberal Arts in the West.”
― Robert M. Woods, Dwelling on Delphi: Thinking Christianly About the Liberal Arts

“Not many decades ago, the primary motivation for attaining a college education shifted, from lifelong learning to the immediate end of earning wages, from receiving an education to making a living.”
― Robert M. Woods, Dwelling on Delphi: Thinking Christianly About the Liberal Arts

“In the best and highest sense, a Liberal Arts education means a liberation from something and toward something. It is liberation or freedom from the kind of training that restricts one to being bound to a narrow trade or skill and a limited reference of all that is good, true, and beautiful beyond a small moment.”
― Robert M. Woods, Dwelling on Delphi: Thinking Christianly About the Liberal Arts

“So here is a wise solution: read the Great Books, the Classics, and the Masterpieces of the human race, but make certain our devotion to Sacred Scripture stands premier.”
― Robert M. Woods, Dwelling on Delphi: Thinking Christianly About the Liberal Arts

“And those who have read the trilogy tend to number it among the unapproachables—just some of those books that are simply too strange and fantastical and, well, weird to really like. I love this series deeply, but I still relate to those people. On the surface, the Ransom Trilogy bears the marks of a sci-fi adventure. But then there are all those philosophical passages, and there’s an awful lot of time spent just talking on Perelandra, and then Merlin (of all people!) shows up and don’t even get started on Mr. Bultitude… It is for these people—indeed, for my former self—that I have written this book.”
― Christiana Hale, Deeper Heaven: A Reader's Guide to C. S. Lewis's Ransom Trilogy

“Passion is the genesis of genius.”
― Galileo Galilei