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Can't sleep. Had cola with my pizza. So I give you an excerpt from a book that I think most educators should read, unless you have a good excuse for not. I realize that most of you are in the choir, and I don't need to preach, but sometimes (often) I have difficulty articulating why this is important.
From the introduction to Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education
Our campuses are producing citizens, and this means that we must ask what a good citizen of the present day should be and should know. The present-day world is inescapably multicultural and multinational. Many of our most pressing problems require for their intelligent, cooperative solution a dialogue that brings together people from many different national and cultural and religious backgrounds. Even those issues that seem closest to home--issues, for example, about the structure of the family, the regulation of sexuality, the future of children--need to be approached with a broad historical and cross-cultural understanding. A graduate of a U.S. university or college ought to be the sort of citizen who can become an intelligent participant in debates involving these differences, whether professionally or simply as a voter, a juror, a friend (Nussbaum 8).
Buy it, Amazon has copies for less than $8.00.
LOL, Amazon tells me I bought it on April 17, 2005. That's why I started over at the beginning.
From the introduction to Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education
Our campuses are producing citizens, and this means that we must ask what a good citizen of the present day should be and should know. The present-day world is inescapably multicultural and multinational. Many of our most pressing problems require for their intelligent, cooperative solution a dialogue that brings together people from many different national and cultural and religious backgrounds. Even those issues that seem closest to home--issues, for example, about the structure of the family, the regulation of sexuality, the future of children--need to be approached with a broad historical and cross-cultural understanding. A graduate of a U.S. university or college ought to be the sort of citizen who can become an intelligent participant in debates involving these differences, whether professionally or simply as a voter, a juror, a friend (Nussbaum 8).
Buy it, Amazon has copies for less than $8.00.
LOL, Amazon tells me I bought it on April 17, 2005. That's why I started over at the beginning.
