The method of intellection is characteristic to divine science. The learning of metaphysics provides the opportunities for the human intellect to be used at peak capacity. The goals of education are to teach man issues which are worthwhile through knowledge of different subjects. The use of logic will be used to teach man scientific knowledge, mathematics, natural philosophy, and metaphysics. Knowledge is a particular kind of being, a modification. or vital action action of the knowing subject.
Sense experience is the beginning for all of man's natural knowledge.
There is a dual operation to the intellect. Aquinas believed that several sensations grouped together would create a memory, and that many memories grouped together equal sense experience. Sense knowledge is only understandable by the action of the intellect. Sense memory allows the individual to reproduce in one's memory an image they had seen. Sense-consciousness gives an awareness of an object through various sense perceptions.