Noah K

“Yet because we can read the newspaper or Time or Stephen King without difficulty, we tend to think that we should be able to go directly into Homer or Henry James without any further preparation. And when we stumble, grow confused or weary, we take this as proof of our mental inadequacy: We’ll never be able to read the Great Books.”
― Susan Wise Bauer, The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had

“Technology can do a great deal to make information gathering easier, but it can do little to simplify the gathering of wisdom. Information washes over us like a sea, and recedes without leaving its traces behind. Wrestling with truth, as the story of Jacob warns us, is a time-consuming process that marks us forever.”
― Susan Wise Bauer, The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had