Finally, and perhaps most importantly, you need to acquire the skills of writing and speaking that make for candor, rigor, and clarity. You cannot think clearly if you cannot speak and write clearly.

You need to know enough philosophy so that the methods of logical analysis are available to you to be used as a tool. One of the most depressing things about e…

Just acquiring this amount of 'education' will not, by itself, make you an educated person, even less will it give you what Oakeshott calls 'judgment.' But if …

You need to know at least one foreign language well enough so that you can read the best literature that that language has produced in the original, and so you…