by Evan Dwan | May 29, 2020 | News |
There is an old idea that at the core of each individual lives what the Greeks called the daimon and the Romans referred to as the genius. It is a ‘spirit’ that is there from birth and it is intentional in that it is aimed at something. This daimon has its own agenda,...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 19, 2020 | News |
Tim Robinson was man of many ways. He was an ecologist, an environmentalist, a natural historian, a geographer, a botanist, and even a translator. He wanted to find out what it was like to live well on the earth and to discover the right way to be in the world, find a...
by Evan Dwan | Jul 18, 2019 | News |
In a society that puts such value on efficiency and productivity we are often quite resistant to the practice of deep contemplation, specifically contemplating the why of things, questioning the reasons that we do what we do. Why(!) is this? Why questions are...
by Evan Dwan | Jul 4, 2019 | News |
If we were to design an educational system from scratch what would we design it for? What aims and purposes would we have? What might we hope to ‘draw out’ in the young? What kind of person would we seek to create? When thinking of education, I think it is important...