Re-Ensouling Education : Essays On The Importance Of The Humanities In Schooling The Soul

2nd Edition: Previously published as "The Soul Does Not Specialize." With a new preface by Dennis Patrick Slattery. An education in the Humanities is under attack, defunded and depreciated in academic institutions ranging from primary school through doctoral degree programs both in the United States and abroad. The emphasis is on educating students for standardized and specialized minds, at the expense of educating the whole student, which includes, as the title of this volume argues, schooling the soul. This collection brings together essays by administration, faculty, and staff from Pacifica Graduate Institute, a small educational institution located on the coast of Central California, which emphasizes the wisdom traditions in depth psychology, mythology, and the humanities. Each essay is a personal manifesto, an impassioned argument for the importance of an education in the humanities which stimulates the mind, nourishes the soul, and gives wings to the imagination. From the Book: "The humanities are the limbs of education that grow the soul, express the spirit, and contain the repository of human wisdom, the storehouse of our grand experiment in social living, offering a place to discuss the ends for which we live. In the humanities reside the big questions-what makes life worth living? What values should shape the life of the individual and the life of the nation?-and in the humanities we learn the critical thinking tools we need to engage the questions and begin to discern, articulate, and apply our answers. Technology may be the two legs we stand upon, but the humanities are our two arms, able to reach out and transform a neighborhood into a brotherhood." Jennifer Leigh Selig, Ph

• | Author: Dennis Patrick Slattery, Selig, Stephen a Aizenstat, Ginette Paris
• | Publisher: Mandorla Books
• | Publication Date: Mar 16, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 212 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1950186032
• | ISBN-13: 9781950186037