Earlier I mentioned Earl Shorris’s Clemente Course in Humanities. One of the results of the course was that the students developed “notably more appreciation for the concepts of benevolence, spirituality, universalism, and collectivism.”

Now obviously the list may not be complete, but I found it interesting that individualism wasn’t on it. IMHO, individualism is one of the crown jewels of Western Thought (and I’m not saying Western Civ has a monopoly on individualism, or anything like that). Unfortunately, I think individualism has been eclipsed by collectivism.

Ahhh, maybe I’m making too much out of this one quote. I still hope to blog about humanities and public schools someday soon.

Posted in uncategorized on May 6th, 2004 by Thibodeaux | RSS 2.0 |