He offers instead six principles for a proper education:
1. All education is environmental education.Can any college or university say it is teaching using these principles today?
2. The goal of education is not mastery of subject matter, but of one's person.
3. Knowledge carries with it the responsibility to see that it is well used in the world.
4. We cannot say that we know something until we understand the effects of this knowledge on real people and their communities.
5. The importance of "minute particulars" and the power of examples over words.
6. The way learning occurs is as important as the content of particular courses.
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David Orr has written a whole book on this topic. It's called EARTH IN MIND (1993). It's very good --although the summary of his commencement address here says it all in lucid, compact form! He has also written a book called ECOLOGICAL LITERACY (1992) that I haven't read. It's about basic concepts of ecology. . .
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