After 25 years teaching at Concordia University, you will be retiring at the end of June. I think the most important thing is the powerful cutting open of the possibility of truth. And truth is something that you can get to and it is worth getting to. Most of our civilization doesn't really think it is possible to get to truth. Therefore, that creates a whole different atmosphere.
Education is mostly about competition, success.
It's mostly about convincing other people, winning arguments, things like that. Which isn't worth anything at all. And what I learned from Lonergan was to identify the very powerful appetite, well it's more than an appetite, the very basic drive toward truth, and then toward the good, and then toward decisions about the good. But that beginning with the drive toward truth, to identify that as the real dynamism, just as powerful as sex or hunger. It is basic, it is constant, it is powerful and it goes without limit in its own direction.