[Attention conservation notice: this is a long post about a hypothetical scheme for high school history education] Lately I’ve...
[Attention conservation notice: this is a long post about a hypothetical scheme for high school history education]
Lately I’ve been thinking about what a modern humanist education might look like. Or really, not just an education in the classics like what you’d get at St. John’s College, but something designed to give students, let’s say the equivalent of AP students, a working, synoptic understanding of how humanity behaves. To give them a strong intuition for similarities and differences across time, for topics like economics, war, atrocities, philosophy, art, technological development, the course of empires, and the role of women. What are the constants? How do they vary across levels of development, or across civilizations? How did people live as hunter-gatherers, pastoralists, horticulturalists, agriculturalists, or in the modern world? Basically to produce broad minded students with good sense, to the extent education can do so (which is nonzero at least).
really thought this was going to be an anime premise
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