Bernard Lonergan was born on December 17, 1904 in Buckingham, Quebec. Of Irish origin, his family settled on a small farm in a French-speaking community. His family attended St. Gregory's Catholic Church in Nazianze, and Bernard was educated at a Catholic boys' school named St. Michael's. He was then sent to a boarding school called Loyola College, located in Montreal. Lonergan entered the Society of Jesus on July 29, 1922, at the age of 18. He then taught in the Jesuit seminaries of Montreal and Toronto and, in the summer of 1933, taught theological studies at the Collège de l'Immaculée-Conception in Montreal. He then taught philosophy and theology in Rome and was ordained a Catholic priest on July 25, 1936. A year later, he earned his master's degree in sacred theology and later pursued a doctorate on the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas. Through his teaching which has become global, he "recognized that the crises of modernity call for a complete and profound overhaul of the 'method'". As he became more aware of "knowing", he realized that it simply meant repeating something like the robots in a textbook. by chatting and meeting other teachers. Something was missing; something Lonergan understood was “insight,” “the notion of development and the personal dimensions of understanding” (Creamer 53). Lonergan wrote his best-known book, Insight in 1957, which was a study of human understanding and a conquest to “transpose the position of Saint Thomas to address the problems of our time” (Creamer 53). The book addresses the intended reader and the means of discovering oneself “in oneself”. Lonergan wanted to explain how people think and arrive at their conclusions while knowing how their methods of reasoning arrive at those conclusions. It was determined that the ability of individuals to confront and understand each other is the origin of more global knowledge. The truths of the world come not from science or religion, he asserted, but from ourselves. The goal of Insight “is to discover, identify [and] become familiar with how we use our intelligence.” What Lonergan discovered is that every person needs to become aware and familiar with how we use our intelligence and how we can maximize and use it better..