Kevin Greene ’79 with John Howard, SJ, professor in the A&S Honors Program

John Howard, SJ

KEVIN GREENE: Fr. Howard’s lessons:

• Read, read, read, and give yourself over completely to your topic of study. (He assigned us hundreds of pages a week to make this easier to do.)

• Read the text first, formulate your own opinion, then read the scholars’ criticisms.

• The purpose of a Jesuit education is not to teach you what to think but how to think.

• Never walk away from a debate. Defend your views and do not let emotion get the better of you.

• Jack Howard taught us to be lovers and seekers of nous—a Greek word that means so much more than “knowledge.” Twenty-nine years later, the lamp is still lit.

Kevin Greene is an executive with a commercial real estate firm based in Southern California.