Can Anyone Actually Teach You Anything? | Ep 22 The TAC Podcast
What does it mean to teach?
Can knowledge truly be transferred from one person to another, or must every student ultimately learn for himself? In this episode of The TAC Podcast, John Finley and Chris Decaen explore St. Thomas Aquinas's On the Teacher (De Magistro), one of the most profound reflections ever written on education, learning, and the life of the mind. Drawing from Aquinas's Disputed Questions on Truth, they examine whether human beings can genuinely be called teachers, how knowledge is acquired, why learning requires the active participation of the student, and what separates…
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