The Benefits of a Classical Education

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

I didn’t realize that famed technologist Tim O’Reilly had a classical education, which he discussed with Forbes:

I’ve been deeply influenced by Aristotle’s idea that virtue is a habit, something you practice and get better at, rather than something that comes naturally. “The control of the appetites by right reason,” is how he defined it. My brother James once brilliantly reframed this as “Virtue is knowing what you really want,” and then building the intellectual and moral muscle to go after it.

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