How should we teach STEM for the 21st century? What does a curriculum look like that's inspiring & cutting-edge but also grounded in first principles?
This week we talk with Dr. David Ruth, UATX's new Dean of STEM @uaustinorg, about designing a new approach.
AO Episode 86
In conversation with Larry Arnn, Hillsdale College President. We discuss the divided brain and how it relates to mankind’s search for meaning.
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Human flourishing at UATX 🎓
The first two years of our curriculum make up the Intellectual Foundations program—a program that, through exploring foundational questions, seeks to shape students into leaders who actively inspire goodness around them.
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@Breedlove22@jordanbpeterson The transcendent stories of humanity legitimate and describe ideal ways of being (ie virtuous/ moral lives). These truths are resistant to logical explanation and can only be communicated by story, and understood through embodiment / belief.
@allenf32@allenf32 are you familiar with the work of Deirdre McCloskey? Her argument is that wealth accumulation is more critically a result of a cultural valuing of entrepreneurship / innovators. Capital is necessary but not sufficient, and is downstream of culture/ideas.
@Mehdiyac In other words:
“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
A meaningful life is possible in any circumstance, as long as a "why" is well chosen, and fully trusted.
@Mehdiyac I have read the essay many times now, and my conclusion is that popular culture overlooks the importance of defining a purpose. An aim. "The things that ought to be valued."
Strategy and tactics are meaningless without a transcendent purpose.