I am a 74-year-old former instructor who now works part-time as a drivers’ schooling teacher for a non-public sector driving faculty situated within the western suburbs of Chicago. Typically talking, this driving faculty attracts 15 and 16-year-old, academically inclined college students preferring studying to drive exterior of the varsity day. This private-sector choice permits these college students to load their respective class schedules up with honors courses (not driver’s ed) that, upon highschool commencement, will increase their odds of being accepted into the school of their selection.
In brief, I drive with a lot of actually vibrant children from 6 completely different public excessive colleges and 4 completely different personal excessive colleges, a big share of whom are straight A college students. And each certainly one of these children, in their very own distinctive manner, is acutely keen on exploring the assorted points concerned with residing a life that is value residing. However paradoxically, solely certainly one of these 9 extremely regarded excessive colleges provides a category within the subject that is particularly designed to discover what it means to stay a life that is value residing – specifically the sphere of Philosophy.
And on this one highschool, philosophy is obtainable strictly as an elective. This implies solely a really small share of that college’s college students ever go eyeball to eyeball and wrestle with historical past’s most profound and influential thinkers starting from Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle by way of Aquinas, Descartes, Rousseau, Spinoza, Locke, Hume, Kant, Hegel Kierkegaard, Marx, and Nietzsche, simply to call a couple of. Whereas children on the different eight colleges have zero likelihood of studying something about these mental giants aside from their names in an historic context.
A Easy Resolution to a Profound Downside
However fortuitously for the youngsters I drive with, I’ve a easy resolution. Enable me to introduce you to a podcast entitled “PHILOSOPHIZE THIS.” The Seattle primarily based producer/narrator Steven West does a completely spectacular job of translating some very sophisticated philosophical ideas into plain English. He speaks to the present technology of their phrases. He additionally does an ideal job of offering a context through which these iconic figures may be understood and absolutely appreciated for his or her contributions to the historical past of the human race.
West has been producing his great (free for the asking) podcast since 2013. It presently options virtually 150 twenty-five to thirty-minute episodes. The context he gives permits every episode to face by itself. This implies you can hearken to them in chronological order. Or you may decide and select randomly and nonetheless end up with a wealth of information to which only a few highschool or school college students on this nation will ever actually avail themselves.
It’s going to Make Your Wheels Flip…
I confess, in my very own case, “Philosophize This” borders on being addictive. I can hardly put the bloody factor down. However extra importantly for this communique, any pupil who finds the time to offer Steven West’s podcast a good shot, will probably be launched to crucial considering experiences that, within the identify of STEM, are being ignored by trendy instructional programs throughout the nation. In distinction, West will trigger your psychological wheels to show in ways in which you’ve got by no means skilled earlier than. I promise! And, as a result of so few college students will ever avail themselves to those extraordinarily insightful potentialities, you will routinely grow to be the neatest child in your class by default!
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