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Great article! --Seb

Yes, very interesting article, a subject close to my heart.

Do you know who coined "educational perennialism"?

Perennialists believe that one should teach the things of everlasting importance to all people everywhere. ... Therefore, one should teach principles, not facts.

The above strikes me as a pretty obvious nonsequitur. (There are plenty of facts that everybody should know.) Is that actually what real perennialists say?

--Larry Sanger

[edit] Aquinas' De Magistro

Note that the link to the De Magistro of Aquinas is broken. I will try to find a good link.

[edit] De Magistro

The De Magistro of Aquinas is the same as Quaestio 11 of De veritate, which is found in the Quaestiones disputatae. Here is a link to the complete Latin text, which should probably be included in this article in place of the current broken link:

http://www.corpusthomisticum.org/qdv11.html

I am still looking for an online English translation of this quaestio. The following link provides the Latin and an English translation of article one only:

http://www4.desales.edu/~philtheo/loughlin/ATP/De_Magistro/De_Magistro_11_1.html 24.128.21.135 16:01, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lost Information in this Article

On November 21, due to an edit by 68.222.17.16, a significant amount of information was lost from this article: most of the Religious Perennialism section, and the entire list of Colleges Exemplifying This Philosophy. I cannot tell whether this was vandalism or an inadvertent deletion. Unless anyone objects, I will restore the previous content soon. TheDean 16:51, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

  • I don't see any reason to wait in reverting a large deletion with no edit comment and no discussion here. I've restored it. Dpbsmith (talk) 17:12, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Is the article not too biased towards American thinkers in the 20th century?

  • Probably. The recent observation that some Muslims consider perennialism too pluralistic is not a great step forward, either, since the same could be said of many educational philosophies. The note cites no sources, either; I propose deleting it, as it is not in keeping with the rest of the article. A deeper history of perennialism would probably trace it back from Aquinas through Augustine to Greek philosophy. It is hard to see that the distinction between secular perennialism and religious perennialism would remain so significant if a full historical treatment were attempted. TheDean 03:31, 3 December 2007 (UTC)