Error Is Indeed Our Enemy,

Professors Of Greek Forget Or Are Unaware That Thomas Aquinas, Who Did Not Know Greek, Was A Better Interpreter Of Aristotle Than Any Of Them Have Proved To Be, Not Only Because He Was Smarter But Because He Took Aristotle More Seriously.

Education In Our Times Must Try To Find Whatever There Is In Students That Might Yearn For Completion, And To Reconstruct The Learning That Would Enable Them Autonomously To Seek That Completion.

The Humanities Are Like The Great Old Paris Flea Market Where, Amidst Masses Of Junk, People With A Good Eye Found Cast Away Treasures...they Are Like A Refugee Camp Where All The Geniuses Driven Out Of Their Jobs And Countries By Unfriendly Regimes Are Idling.

I Am Now Even More Persuaded Of The Urgent Need To Study Why Socrates Was Accused. The Dislike Of Philosophy Is Perennial, And The Seeds Of The Condemnation Of Socrates Are Present At All Times, Not In The Bosoms Of Pleasure-seekers, Who Don't Give A Damn, But In Those Of High-minded And Idealistic Persons Who Do Not Want To Submit Their Aspirations To Examination.

Classical Music Is A Special Taste Like Greek Language Or Pre-columbian Archeology, Not A Common Culture Of Reciprocal Communication And Psychological Shorthand.