Transforming History - by William Irwin Thompson (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Education is currently a foremost concern for many Americans. Education, however, is about more than teaching children skills for earning a living and how to function in life. It is really a means of transmitting both a culture and a heritage.</p> <p>William Irwin Thompson, one of today's most innovative interdisciplinary thinkers, talks about how to transform a cultural legacy in the course of transmitting it. His visionary approach takes education far beyond the bland, watered-down curricula so many students face today in public and private schools.</p> <p>Thompson offers us a mind-rattling tour of our potential as human beings, from the Gilgamesh epic of 2000 B.C.E. to Disney, popular music, current politics and social crises, and beyond. He not only presents a far-reaching system of knowledge and teaching, but also suggests how we can stimulate the best and healthiest patterns of development in our children and teenagers.</p> <p><i><strong>Transforming History</strong></i> will enlighten today's educators and anyone concerned with improving our legacy and our children's place in it.</p> <p><strong>CONTENTS: </strong></p> <p><em>Foreword</em> <br /> <strong>Part One</strong> Cultural History and Complex Dynamical Systems <br /> <strong>Part Two</strong> Transforming History <br /><strong>Appendix</strong> An Outline of the Curriculum <br /> <em>Index</em></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"A brilliant and original work that challenges us to rethink the evolution of human societies and consciousness, and to craft an education for our children that reflects human history." --<strong>Arthur Zajonc</strong>, author of <i>Meditation as Contemplative Inquiry</i> and <i>Catching the Light</i></p> <p>"Read Thompson, a silver thrush among pterodactyls." --<strong>Christopher Lehmann-Haupt</strong>, <i>New York Times </i></p> <p>"The author is billed as a humanities professor...in fact, anyone can see that he is some kind of mage." --<strong>Charles Eliot</strong>, <i>Time Magazine</i></p> <p>"William Irwin Thompson is the most profound, exciting and versatile interpreter of cultural trends at work today. Each of his books is a further extension of his vision." --<strong>Richard A. Falk</strong>, Princeton University, author of <i>The Heart of Philosophy</i></p>--∞<br>
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