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Escape from Skepticism
The brilliant English writer Christopher Derrick presents a disturbing indictment of today's colleges and universities and the troubled condition of liberal education. The occasion for his writing this book was a visit to Thomas Aquinas College in California which deeply impressed Derrick with its true liberal and Catholic education. This small independent college convinced him of the need for reform in Catholic higher education today, and he uses the example of this college as the way this reform should be carried out. "This book is comparable to Newman's Idea of a University . Derrick has wit and a brilliant aphoristic style. This book could well serve as a manual for the reform of Catholic higher education today." "Paul Hallet , The... ... Read More
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