Seneca Letter Interpretation by John Houghton https://padlet.com/houghtonj/eqpkh109egu62hv In your groups discuss the quotes for the Seneca letter and then post your interpretation of the quote and try to add how you think the quote is relevant our lives in current times. en-us 2021-09-27 13:18:38 UTC 2025-11-16 18:35:10 UTC hello@padlet.com "I respect no study, and deem no study good, which results in money-making. Such studies are profit-bringing occupations, useful only in so far as they give the mind a preparation and do not engage it permanently. One should linger upon them only so long as the mind can occupy itself with nothing greater; they are our apprenticeship, not our real work." What is he trying to say and do you agree? houghtonj https://padlet.com/houghtonj/eqpkh109egu62hv/wish/2306917032 2022-09-21 14:03:22 UTC https://padlet.com/houghtonj/eqpkh109egu62hv/wish/2306917032 "For I do not consent to admit painting into the list of liberal arts, any more than sculpture, marble-working, and other helps toward luxury. I also debar from the liberal studies... all others who lend their wits to the service of our pleasures. 19. For what "liberal" element is there in... (these pursuits)? Our ancestors used to teach their children nothing that could be learned while lying down. But neither the new system nor the old teaches or nourishes virtue." , "Why, then, do we educate our children in the liberal studies?” It is not because they can bestow virtue, but because they prepare the soul for the reception of virtue… What is he saying about education and what should be taught? What does he mean when he talks about teaching virtue? houghtonj https://padlet.com/houghtonj/eqpkh109egu62hv/wish/2306923901 2022-09-21 14:06:51 UTC https://padlet.com/houghtonj/eqpkh109egu62hv/wish/2306923901 "Why, then, do we educate our children in the liberal studies?” it is not because they can bestow virtue, but because they prepare the soul for the reception of virtue…" What is your understanding of this passage? In your group, try to agree on a definition of 'liberal studies." houghtonj https://padlet.com/houghtonj/eqpkh109egu62hv/wish/2306926667 2022-09-21 14:08:16 UTC https://padlet.com/houghtonj/eqpkh109egu62hv/wish/2306926667 https://padlet.com/houghtonj/eqpkh109egu62hv/wish/2321191397 Virtues are not taught at school, which it should be. The true meaning of virtue is moral excellence, which sets a high moral standard.]]> 2022-09-30 14:56:12 UTC https://padlet.com/houghtonj/eqpkh109egu62hv/wish/2321191397