You know, reading about him and then reading, reading this, which is that he's a very scholarly and knows a lot about the history of philosophy and not just early modern philosophy, but scholastics for instance.
At first, the apparent lag for want of volume in the new energies lasted one or two centuries, which closed the great epochs of emotion by the Gothic cathedrals and scholastic theology.
He had the good memory which is more useful for scholastic achievements than mental power, and he knew Mr. Watson expected him to leave the preparatory school with a scholarship.
At Yale his wonderful mental gifts raised him far above his fellows; he divided all scholastic honors there with his classmate, William Graham Sumner, afterwards Yale's great political economist.
在耶鲁,他出色智力天赋使他远超同龄人。 他在那里与他同威廉·格雷厄姆·萨姆纳 (William Graham Sumner) 分享了所有术荣誉, 萨姆纳后来成为耶鲁大伟大政治经济家。
For just at that time I had given up my scholastic post and was opening a new line of work as University Extension Lecturer in Economics and Literature.
Perhaps this ideal came from childhood when we were conveyed that our sense of self-worth was validated only by our display of extraordinary scholastic achievement.
But the Aristotelian scholastic conception also influenced economists outside of the Catholic intellectual orbit, some of whom rejected scholasticism outright.
For instance, some studies suggest a correlation between stay-at-home parenting and increased personalized attention for children, which can positively impact their emotional well-being and scholastic performance.
Scholastic philosophy had described humans as a unity, in which mind is the form and body is the matter, and said that without one there could not be the other.