Robert Mitchell (Nurturing the Souls of Our Children) at Cody's Books March 20, 2007

Tuesday, March 20 - Robert Mitchell
7:00 PM at Cody's Stockton Street in San Francisco

ROBERT MITCHELL considers NURTURING THE SOULS OF OUR CHILDREN: Education and the Culture of Democracy. To devise a theory of education is to address the questions of culture, cultural values and cultural identity formation in the child. In this original study, Robert Mitchell gives us a scholarly overview of cultural education in America's schools. He demonstrates how the public trust of universal education fails our children and our democracy. He then advocates reframing our concept of education in terms of a sacred trust that teaches the culture of democracy. Mitchell weaves together anecdotal evidence of a teacher archetype with advanced theories in archetypal psychology, and breaks new ground to provide a new and visionary approach to K-12 education. Robert Mitchell teaches mathematics in a small private secondary school near Washington DC. He is currently a member of the Washington Center for Jungian Psychology and a member of the International Association of Jungian Scholars 7:00 PM at Cody's Stockton Street, San Francisco

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