Does Education Improve the Soul? | Episode LXI

New Humanists

Michel de Montaigne was a native Latin speaker in modern Europe and yet a great innovator in French letters; among other things, he invited the genre known as the essay. His elegant, searching essays are intended to expose the reality of his own soul - and that of his readers. In "On Schoolmasters' Learning," this most studios of men wonders aloud whether education is actually good for you. After all, look at all the people obsessed with books and yet completely useless for anything productive. Maybe study actually harms your soul?

Michel de Montaigne's Complete Essays: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780140446043

Cicero's Pro Archia Poeta: https://amzn.to/49k1zjc

Aristophanes' Clouds: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780801485749

The Cost of Glory | Lucullus I: https://share.transistor.fm/s/4ef111e2

Plato's Hippias Major: https://amzn.to/3SI8PA6

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