Schall at Georgetown
Subtitle: on being liberally educated
By: by James V. Schall, S. J. [with contributions by twelve others]
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Foundation for Economic Education; Jameson Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Altanta; Ottawa, Illinois
Language: eng
Number of pages: 69
ISBN-13: 9780898031744
Subjects: Humanistic Education; Education; Philosophy; Georgetown University
Notes: "Including Leonard E. Read's classic essay: I, pencil" --Cover

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Schall columns in the Hoya, the Voice, the Guardian, and the Academy; title: What a student owes his teacher; title: Another sort of learning; title: On what not to forget; title: Bunn award; title: "On being pleased"; title: "The mystery of things"; title: "The verses of Empedocles"; title: On "the information of others"; title: Great games; title: Failures of correspondence; title: The "enormity of the universe"; title: "The social function of philosophers"; title: "Thought moves nothing"; title: "How difficult it is"; title: The only way you can be you; title: On being moved; title: "Always a gift"; title: On not being an "algebra problem"; title: "The practice of the Pythagoreans"; title: On being "completely objective"; title: On Patton's praise of Rommel; title: On truth and truthfulness; title: "The most regrettable feature of our nature"; title: "On listening with enjoyment"; title: On "reading five books a day"; title: Evil, punishment, forgiveness; title: A "liberal" education; title: "Otherwise normal"; title: On used bookstores; title: On missing the fall semester; title: The essence of Christmas; title: Firsthand knowledge; title: What is "college life?"; title: On college friendships; title: On getting it right; title: Schall essays in Utraque Unum and the Academy; title: On the pleasure of walking about Derby; title: Docilitas : on being invited into the kitchen of Heraclitus; title: On the passingness of things; title: On what can be purchased for a drachma : a last lecture, 2011; title: Retirement interview with the Hoya; title: Student columns on Schall in the Hoya, the Voice, and the Washington Times; title: "Conversations about ultimate questions" / Heather Rowe; title: "Campus spotlight" / Kristin Berg; title: "In Schall's sanctum" by Bryanna Hocking; title: "Schall offers another sort of learning" by Nicholas Timeraos; title: "A life of learning" by Aodhan Bierne; title: Schall's "last lecture at Georgetown"; title: Introductory remarks by Professor Joshua Mitchell; title: Introductory remarks by Michael Jackson, Ph.D; title: "A final gladness" by James V. Schall, S.J; title: "Father James Schall's 'final gladness' : with a nod to Belloc, the respected; title: Theologian retires with a parting lecture that focuses on friendship" by Sophia Mason; title: "The professor who knows our names : a tribute to the man who is Schall" / Brian Jones; title: Schall symposium; title: "A compass, not a mirror : Georgetown University's peripatetic icon" / Cynthia Searcy; title: "Friendship and Father Schall" / Scott Walter; title: "On seeing one's own shadow" / James V. Schall, S.J; title: Conclusion; title: Remarks of Georgetown University President John J. Degioia, at the farewell dinner for James V. Schall, S. J., Riggs Library, March 1, 2013; title: Appendix: Course syllabi; title: Appendix II: the Schall lectures; title: Appendix III: other books by Fr. James V. Schall.