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Habits of the Mind – James W. Shire
I’m currently reading ‘Habits of the Mind’ by James Sire. In chapter six, he writes:
Truth and holiness demand the elimination of many typical human passions: passion for possession (materialism), passion for economic success (money), passion for pleasure (hedonism). Wendell Berry reminds us, for example: “What a man most needs is not a knowledge of how to get more, but a knowledge of the most he can do without, and of how to get along without it. The essential cultural discrimination is not between having and not having or haves and have-nots, but between the superfluous and the indispensable.”
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This was the book that really set me on the path to becoming a Classical Christian educator. I read it right after I finished my BA and it changed my life.
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That’s amazing. I hadn’t heard of Shire until Faulkner when we read “How to Read Slowly” in research methods.
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