A Sort of Synthesis of Schall and Warren
Edith Stein once wrote about a fellow student that while she (the fellow student) was a good enough person, she was not at all a deep thinker. She was more of a synthesizer, taking other people’s ideas and weaving them together. This in Edith’s eyes was an intellectual sin, as she demanded from others what came so easily to herself: brilliance and original thoughts. I admire Edith for many things, but she wouldn’t have approved of me in the classroom, as I, too, am a synthesizer. (more…)