Wednesday History Note: Robert Spaemann

“Education is to train a child to make distinctions, to know the difference between what is good and evil, beautiful and ugly, sacred and profane.  The intellectual efforts require a corresponding moral foundation, one that entails discipline, deferral and even renunciation.  Formed in such a way, the child will have a secure sense of his own worth, and so have the generosity of spirit to recognize the merits of others.”