Thomas Griffin 5/19/25 (For University Bookman)
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Let Us Begin: New Book on the Life and Power of St. Francis
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Aristotle famously began his Metaphysics with a foundational principle: “All men by nature desire to know.” This leads to two further questions: What should men know? How do they come to know? The desire for knowledge immediately generates conversation on the nature of education.
As technology increases exponentially and artificial intelligence threatens to replace human thinking, these questions are ever-relevant. They have always been important, but the landscape of education is changing. Students are less and less interested in learning for learning’s sake. Schools are increasingly more interested in the idols of college acceptance and job preparation making; beefing up resumes, not cultivating virtuous students, has become the summum bonum.
The remedy we need is a return to virtue education, the contours of which David Hein skillfully outlines in his thought-provoking Teaching the Virtues. “Education,” writes Hein, “is more about developing the habits—in particular, the moral traits—of a good life than it is about delivering content, as important as knowledge is.”
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Thomas Griffin is the chairperson of the religion department at a Catholic high school on Long Island where he lives with his wife and three children. He has a masters degree in theology and is a masters candidate in philosophy. Thomas is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Empty Tomb Project: The Magazine. He is the author of Let Us Begin: Saint Francis’s Way of Becoming Like Christ and Renewing the World.
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