Karoline’s Reviews > The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods > Status Update

"Never read when you can reflect; read only, except in moments of recreation, what concerns the purpose you are pursuing; and read little, so is not to eat up your interior silence."

Honestly, the older I get, the more wisdom I see in this.

I'm loving this little book so far, and if it continues as it's begun, I could see reading this with serious high school students for its considerations of vocation, self-knowledge, virtue, and discipline. The ideas are very rich, and many of them are applicable to vocations besides the intellectual.