Summary: Where does real intellectual life happen? Chad Wellmon returns for a short conversation about the teachers, readers, and experiences that taught him how to think—and why universities have no monopoly on the life of the mind. From professors who taught him to read slowly and seriously to a father who studied the Bible at the kitchen table, Wellmon reflects on reading as a social practice and on the people who teach us that ideas matter. He also describes what happened when he brought the liberal arts to working adults at UVA and discovered how powerful it can be simply to take someone seriously as a thinker. The result is a conversation about teaching, learning, and an intellectual desire that Wellmon believes is far more common than we sometimes recognize.
