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 [...]
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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 [...]
Montaigne, De l’institution des enfans
February 21, 1991CHAPITRE XXV. De l’institution des enfans A Madame Diane de Foix, Contesse de Gurson. JE ne vis jamais pere, pour bossé ou teigneux que fust son fils, qui laissast de l’advoüer : non pourtant, s’il n’est du tout enyvré de cet’affection, qu’il ne s’apperçoive de sa defaillance : mais tant y a qu’il est sien. [...]
Education for a Classless Society
July 1, 1978Charter Day Address delivered at the University of California on March 28, 1940. by James Bryant Conant The United States was once proclaimed as the land of the free. Now we are more often reminded that it has been the profitable home of an acquisitive society. Greed and ‘lust for money,’ we are told, determined [...]
