Nathan Bupp, Free Inquiry, Vol 26, no. 6 Humanism and the Science of Happiness Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi garnered wide attention with his bestselling 1990 book, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, in which he argued that the most rewarding happiness lies in the skillful performance of meaningful work that fully occupies one’s attention. He has emerged [...]
Archive for December 2008
A TALK with MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI, the FATHER of ‘FLOW’
December 28, 2008Mortimer Adler on Education
December 28, 2008The Foundations of the Philosophy of Education The Deterioration of American Education The Moral and Educational Revolution That Is Needed What Every Schoolboy Doesn’t Know Teaching and Learning Doctor and Disciple: The Social Responsibilities of the Teacher The Crisis in Contemporary Education This Prewar Generation God and the Professors Tradition and Novelty in Education The [...]
Schooling is Not Education
December 28, 2008by Mortimer Adler, Ph.D. For more than 70 years, a controlling insight in my educational philosophy has been the recognition that no one has ever been — no one can ever be — educated in school or college. That would be the case if our schools and colleges were at their very best, which they [...]
