Liberal Arts

Avicenna laid the groundwork for the philosophy of the Scholastics, particularly developing the logic of Aristotle.

Wonder glimpses an elusive knowledge worth pursuing, and this desire permeated St. Thomas’ mind and heart.

“Is not the great defect of our education today that although we often succeed in teaching our pupils ‘subjects,’ we fail lamentably on the whole in teaching them how to think?”

“I enter into the courts of ancient men and am welcomed by them kindly, and there I taste the food that alone is mine, and for which I was born.”