{"id":408,"date":"2013-01-13T22:09:42","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T04:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/?p=408"},"modified":"2013-01-19T21:39:32","modified_gmt":"2013-01-20T03:39:32","slug":"passion-for-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2013\/01\/13\/passion-for-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Passion for Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Let me, at the outset, begin with a caution.\u00a0 No master can endow a careless and indifferent nature with the true passion for learning.\u00a0 That a young man must acquire for himself.\u00a0 But once the taste begins to develop, then in Ovid&#8217;s words\u00a0&#8216;the more we drink, the more we thirst.&#8217;\u00a0 For when the mind has begun to enjoy the pleasures of learning the passion for fuller and deeper knowledge will grow from day to day.\u00a0 But there can be no proficiency in studies unless there be first the desire to excel.\u00a0 Wherefore let a young man set forward eagerly in quest of those true, honorable, and enduring treasures of the mind which neither disease nor death has power to destroy.&#8221; Battista Guarino, &#8220;On the Means of Teaching and Learning,&#8221; in <em>The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance<\/em>,\u00a0ed. Kenneth R. Bartlett, 2nd edition (Toronto 2011), p. 190.<\/p>\n<p>Battista Guarino wrote this short treatise on classical, humanist education about 1459.\u00a0 His father, Guarino of Verona, had served as a\u00a0master (i.e. teacher) in the palace school of Ferrara since the 1430s.\u00a0 In the 1450s Battista Guarino also began teaching in Ferrara and preserved their pedagogical methods for posterity.\u00a0 For excerpts from the text see\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/history.hanover.edu\/texts\/guarino.html\">http:\/\/history.hanover.edu\/texts\/guarino.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Let me, at the outset, begin with a caution.\u00a0 No master can endow a careless and indifferent nature with the true passion for learning.\u00a0 That a young man must acquire for himself.\u00a0 But once the taste begins to develop, then &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2013\/01\/13\/passion-for-learning\/\">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":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,5,15,10,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-battista-guarino","category-learning","category-renaissance","category-teaching","category-zeal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","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=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":412,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions\/412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}