6. Fountains to be Drunk (5.30.25)

"The Iliad, Oedipus, Republic, Ethics, Aeneid, Confessions, Inferno, Hamlet, and Paradise Lost are more than artifacts to be preserved. They are fountains to be drunk, prophets to be heeded, obstacles to be confronted. Until and unless students and their teachers are willing to ask whether what Homer, Sophocles, Plato, Aristotle, Virgil, Augustine, Dante, Shakespeare, and Milton wrote is true, their encounter will not change their beliefs nor alter their behaviors." -Louis Markos, Passing the Torch