The 2 Economies continued

Dear Colleagues Across the Curriculum,

Ok Ok: we are not a company.
Our business is not to foster
INNOVATION. Many insist
creativity can’t be taught.

Sure: it can't.

Not the same way consumerism
is taught.

Different.

Moot, now—with Harvard, Brown, Cornell,
& Dartmouth freezing their hiring & faculty
searches, figuring out budget cuts: innovation,
creativity, and collaborative genius appropriately
a dream deferred, reason in the sum focused back
on basics and the bottom lines of Maslow’s
Hierarchy of Neediness. .

What correspondence might exist between the
liberal arts disciplines a community practices
and the economy & ecology of the community itself?

Is this a stupid question as in “stunning” and therefore
perfect for “study” and “students”? Or just a stupid
question in the usual common sense sense of the word
“stupid”? I’m asking.

Applied (at home) Liberal Arts:
A local environmental issue.
A local sustainability issue.

METIS, Homer called it: local knowing,
local food for thought & Ph degrees.

Can not a philosopher maintain his vital
heat better than most?Thoreau wonders in
“Economy”— Engmajor kind of talk: liberal
art kind of talk as opposed to (not to be
collapsed, conflated & confused with)
institutional kinds of talk: the Other
Economy.

Listen to the sound:
[“Voice is ALL,”
say the creative non-fiction writers;
“Content” is galore]:
Hark (oyez):

America’s tradition of providing a liberal education
to students at the college level… is more important
than ever in this turbulent global era. The educational
vision that AAC&U has been working with our members
to develop builds on the enduring aims of American
liberal education: broad knowledge, strong intellectual
skills, a grounded sense of ethical and social responsibility.
But—and this is equally important—the essential learning
outcomes articulated in AAC&U’s Liberal Education and
America’s Promise (LEAP) initiative also work to connect
liberal education directly with the economic realities and
societal challenges that shape our world.

“Bologna Plus: The Liberal Education Advantage”
By Carol Geary Schneider President of the
Association of American Colleges & Universities.

xxxooo, Sam