Stan Szczesny
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Location | Cedar City, Utah, United States |
| Introduction | Several years ago, I walked by Encyclopedia Britannica's "Great Books of the Western World" set and realized that I was about to graduate from college without having read any of the authors listed there. So I dropped out of school and set a goal to read all of those books. The goal took eight years. Along the way, I found schools that supplemented my change in approach to education. I completed a B.A. at George Wythe University and an M.A. in Eastern Classics at St. John's College. Now, I'm moving forward. I drive a 1976 van. I have a wife and 5 children under the age of 7. We don't have much, but we stay happy talking about Francis Bacon and Confucius. |
| Interests | Playing blues on the guitar, Great Books, classics, reading, educating my children, conversing with my wife, discussing ideas with my students, writing poetry, St. John's College, George Wythe University. |
| Favorite movies | All About Eve, Duck Soup, Amadeus, Godzilla vs. Mothra, Citizen Kane |
| Favorite music | Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, B.B. King, Jimi Hendrix, Robert Johnson, |
| Favorite books | Gargantua and Pantagruel, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Harmonies of the World, Ulysses, Life of Johnson, Newton's Principia, Montaigne's Essays, Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws, Summa Theologica, Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling |