Excellent quote. Very telling about our crisis in education. This is so critical to our community spiritual development and it could start with an education revolution. UNTIL STUDENTS stand up to THEIR universities (and parents stand up to schools before that) and demand to be taught and to be able to discuss with each other their imaginings, their dreams, their possibilities, their values, their purpose in life and their visions for the future, we will continue sleepwalking to a very bleak destiny.
..And how to see in a nation of the blind. Excellent article!--
"Human imagination, the capacity to have vision, to build a life of meaning rather than utilitarianism, is as delicate as a flower. And if it is crushed, if a Shakespeare or a Sophocles is no longer deemed useful in the empirical world of business, careerism and corporate power, if universities think a Milton Friedman or a Friedrich Hayek is more important to their students than a Virginia Woolf or an Anton Chekhov, then we become barbarians. We assure our own extinction. Students who are denied the wisdom of the great oracles of human civilization—visionaries who urge us not to worship ourselves, not to kneel before the base human emotion of greed—cannot be educated. They cannot think." - Chris Hedges
For full article, please click on the link below:
http://www.truthdig.com/report/page2/how_to_think_20120709/
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