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A Student's Guide to Liberal Learning by James V. Schall

A Student's Guide to Liberal Learning is a booklet written by James V. Schall and published by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.

In it, Schall writes that there are things that should be known " `for their own sakes, ` not for some useful or pleasurable purpose". These things help us in our pursuit of truth, to know reality the way it really is which is the true purpose of the mind. Unfortunately, these things are not taught in today's universities nor in the popular culture.

Included throughout the booklet are lists of books, which he suggests one read in the pursuit of "an intellectual life open to the truth". Schall wrote this booklet (an essay in his words) as almost a watered-down version of his book, Another Sort of Learning, which contains a more detailed recommendation on how to search for the true nature of things. An updated list originally included in the latter entitled "Schall's Unlikely List of Books to Keep Sane By" is reproduced at the end.

In addition, he makes a few notable suggestions:

1) Read the great books (of the Western world)

"The very existence of the great books enables us to escape from any tyranny of the present, from the idea that we only want to study what is currently `relevant' or immediately useful."

2) Build a personal library

"...we have not read a great book at all if we have read it only once."

"...at differing times of my life I have seen things in these works that I could not have seen when I was younger."

"There is nothing wrong with going back and in our leisure finding out what we had forgotten or not placed in the right context."

3) Engage in self-denial.

"Almost always, on reflection upon ourselves, we can find something in us, in our desires or habits or choices, that would prevent us from confronting the really important things."