{"id":2019,"date":"2019-02-21T00:19:53","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T06:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/?p=2019"},"modified":"2019-02-21T10:53:31","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T16:53:31","slug":"studies-burdensome-to-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2019\/02\/21\/studies-burdensome-to-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"Studies Burdensome to Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One may wish to be learned in old age, but it is not easy to achieve this unless we have nurtured learning in ourselves from our earliest years with zealous effort.\u00a0 So we need to prepare in youth those consolations which can bring delight in honorable old age; <strong>studies which are burdensome to youth will be pleasant relaxations to age.\u00a0<\/strong> In this sense they are truly great bulwarks, whether we seek a remedy against sloth or solace in the face of worry and care. Piero Paolo Vergerio, \u201cCharacter and Studies Befitting a Free-Born Youth,\u201d in\u00a0<em>The Great Tradition: Classic Readings on What It Means to Be An Educated Human Being<\/em>, ed. Richard M. Gamble. Wilmington\u00a02007, p. 316. [Emphasis added]<\/p>\n<p>The learning one obtains in youth brings consolation in one&#8217;s old age.\u00a0 This is a reason why memorization at the grammar stage of learning lays the foundation for higher cognitive skills: logic and rhetoric.\u00a0 In our youth this learning seems like drudgery, but without it no one can read or enjoy philosophy in one&#8217;s old age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One may wish to be learned in old age, but it is not easy to achieve this unless we have nurtured learning in ourselves from our earliest years with zealous effort.\u00a0 So we need to prepare in youth those consolations &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2019\/02\/21\/studies-burdensome-to-youth\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,65,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-learning","category-liberal-arts","category-pietro-paulo-vergerio","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2019"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2030,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019\/revisions\/2030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}