Originally Posted by py3ak

So if I understand you correctly, Dr. Clark, you would say that the seminary is something of everything which Lewis was distinguishing (in that you do form character, you do pursue learning, and you do attempt to equip for a certain vocation)? And if you were able to improve something you would give less "remedial" information.

I'm sure the faculty treats the students like human beings! That question was directed at whether you saw the role of the seminary as forming character, as educating in Lewis' use of the term in that essay (hence the modifying phrase in the original question). But you answered that under another point. With regard to Schwenn I think Lewis would say (without meaning to be despective) that he wanted to be a schoolmaster, rather than a university fellow.

If I can trespass on your patience for just one question further, I think I can ask one question more precisely. With regard to the teaching of the humanities, do you see it more as helping a student see that particular branch of reality, or as giving them what will be most useful in the formation of a good character?