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       THe Anti-College
   DIR By: forbitals
       Date: June 13, 2019, 6:05 pm
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       The Anti-College Is on the Rise
       Students, teachers and reformers are pushing back against the
       failures of mainstream higher education.
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       They represent a growing movement of students, teachers and
       reformers who are trying to compensate for mainstream higher
       education’s failure to help young people find a calling: to
       figure out what life is really for.
       These students will read works by authors ranging from Plato and
       Herbert Marcuse to Tlingit writers. The point is to “develop and
       flex a more rigorous political imagination,” according to one
       course syllabus. They will take on 15 to 20 hours a week of
       manual labor in Sitka, and set their group’s rules on everything
       from curfews to cellphones. Last summer’s cohort discouraged the
       use of phones during class and service hours and ordered
       everyone to turn off the internet at 10 p.m.
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       It operates on a “pay what you can” model and bans alcohol,
       tobacco, marijuana and recreational drugs.
       The point of bringing students to live, work and read together
       is nothing short of “the cultivation of wisdom, the living of a
       good life in thought and action, and selfless devotion to world
       and humanity,” according to the Arete Project’s website. But
       what philosophical foundations underlie those ambitions?
       “I do wonder whether or not it’s mission-critical for an
       educational institution to have a fully articulated metaphysics
       and ethics and politics that underpin it — or to what extent
       that is inhibitive to the broader project of liberal education,”
       Ms. Marcus told me. “There is a deep-seated human desire to feel
       you’re a part of something bigger than yourself, and one of the
       problems of liberal modernity is that it doesn’t give you a
       whole lot beyond the self to subsume yourself in. That gives
       secular institutions like ours a little bit of a question mark
       about what that grounding vision is going to be.”
       Outer Coast and the Arete Project represent one strain of higher
       education reform: call them the communitarian pragmatists, with
       liberal arts for the mind, labor for the body and an ethos of
       secular monasticism for the spirit. They are the descendants of
       philosophers like John Dewey and educational entrepreneurs like
       Deep Springs College’s founder, L.L. Nunn.
       Way Finding Academy, Portland Oregon
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       OT: Are Traditional Colleges and Universities Bad Environments?
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