Education and Its Discontents

Education and Its Discontent – A lack of adequate education exists in most places for “knowledge of life,” involving American public policy, history, sociology, psychology, culture wars, and religion. College graduates are in serious need of judgment in these areas – the lack of which is partly due to an almost exclusive emphasis on job training, not the original purpose of advanced learning. At present, we concentrate on only two out of a possible eight forms of intelligence – logical/mathematical and linguistic intelligences. But we are a mixture of other types as well – existential, spatial, musical, inter and intrapersonal, and body intelligence. All these are important for development of the whole person and society, and we not only don’t test for them, we don’t teach them to our students. – Dawn Blasko, Ph.D. and Charles Brock, M.Litt.