In 1989 independent filmmaker, Monty Diamond, made a documentary short on Black Mountain College, which contextualizes the emergence of the school within the global context of rapidly shifting political and educational trends in of the early 1930's, and illustrates how in some ways history is repeating itself today. The film provides dispassionate information about the school's mission, organization, key players and work product. The film also provides a critique of how crisis in education and politics can serve as opportunity for education and artistic enlightenment, and a new social cohesion.
Sunday, December 3, 2017
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Frances Perkins: The woman who designed Social Security
After a long hiatus - resulting from the death of my mother and a cross country relocation from Seattle to Atlanta, with a 6 month pit stop...
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It has been said that education absent mindful-inclusion of the whole, will lead to elitism and entitled insularity, which enables the high...
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After a long hiatus - resulting from the death of my mother and a cross country relocation from Seattle to Atlanta, with a 6 month pit stop... -
Albert Einstein, 1921, by Ferdinand Schmutzer via Wikimedia Commons Einstein’s Moral Imperative on “The Common Language of Science...