Uczenie się jako przypominanie sobie: tomistyczna droga odzyskania kształcenia na poziomie wyższym
Learning as recollection: a Thomistic approach to recovering higher education

Summary/Abstract: This article’s chief aim is to analyze conditions of contemporary learning and higher education. All learning involves the use of imagination and memory. Higher learning demands a linguistically developed and fertile imagination intellectually directed through a skillfully developed memory. The key for building up such an imagination is skillful reading great books, books written by original great discoverers. Skillful, virtuous, reading habits are the methods of higher learning. Like all virtues if we do not practice them, they declines. Hence, progressing illiteracy on a college level is due chiefly to a combination of weak curriculum and bad reading habits. To save education for the whole Western civilization we will have regain a healthy imagination through skillful reading of great books.

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