“Ever since I joined the faculty of the Phoenix Institute, I greatly enjoyed teaching to a group of outstanding students from Latin America, North America and Europe. Teaching in the Phoenix Program is a unique and most rewarding experience. Phoenix professors are expected to teach on their own field of academic expertise, but with an additional philosophical dimension. Given my expertise in comparative and international law and relations, it enabled me to go beyond the customary positivist approach and add historic, philosophical and religious perspectives to enhance students’ insight and understanding. The results were most striking”.

“To be with students who want to learn and whose friendship is constituted in part by their love of truth is a teacher’s dream and that is the best thing about teaching in the Phoenix Institute. This is the classical ideal of higher education and it exists in very few places today.”

“The experience of teaching in the Phoenix Institute was really very delightful to me as a teacher. I had well over fifty students from foreign lands taking the class on God, Creation, and Human Dignity early in the morning every day. Often a class that size at that time can be tiresome to a teacher like me who stresses active discussion, because many students can hide in the crowd. Yet all the students in this class came well prepared each day for the lecture and discussion. Instead of being exhausted at the end of each class I was refreshed and energized for the rest of the day. Really a delight, and a great testimony to the quality of students the Phoenix Institute attracts. As I told the students at the end of it all, “we have been friends together.” I can’t wait to do it again.”