Through reading literature we can make ghosts speak to us, and we can speak back to them.
Stephen GreenblattWhat began as downsizing went on to wholesale abandonment. Schools closed, libraries and academies shut their doors, professional grammarians and teachers of rhetoric found themselves out of work. There were more important things to worry about than the fate of books.
Stephen GreenblattI began with the desire to speak with the dead.
Stephen GreenblattTag: education knowledge shakespeare history historians desire
They were an elite, living at the center of the world's greatest power, and one of their most cherished privileges was the cultivation of the life of the mind.
Stephen GreenblattLibraries, museums, and schools are fragile institutions.
Stephen GreenblattOur sense that a library is a public good and our idea of what such a place should look like derived precisely from a model created in Rome several thousand years ago.
Stephen GreenblattTag: libraries
Compared to the unleashed forces of warfare and of faith, Mount Vesuvius was kinder to the legacy of antiquity.
Stephen GreenblattTag: christianity war religion faith atheism
The discussion itself is what most matters, the fact that we can reason together easily, with a blend of wit and seriousness, never descending into gossip or slander and always allowing room for alternative views.
Stephen GreenblattTag: discussion
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