First Monday evening class for Fall 2016, Intro to Philosophy. I am treating the afternoon class and the evening class as two very distinct iterations of the same material.
For the evening class, like the earlier one, I started with asking, “What is education?” I got very different answers! So this led the evening class down a different track of thinking. After lecturing for about 35 minutes, I turned off the recorder and opened up the room to discussion.
Ultimately, I attempted to engage the class in a back-and-forth that elucidated for us a better understanding of how “education” has been turned into a commercial exchange, a trade of “fundamentals”, a receipt of knowledge-products. I called this process, Whatification.
Monday evening, 29 Aug 2016
Asking, “What” is education?
the How, Where, When, Who of education
“Why” IS education! Philosophizing resets the direction of our inquiries by asking “Why…?”
Care Compassion Companionship
Nietzsche’s Madman and our Super Heroes
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