Word: transcendentalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"Schools need at their core a transcendent ides that uplifts their purpose, shapes their curriculum and helps to create a public mind," Postman said.
"The idea of teaching students how to make a living, not a life, has no transcendent meaning," the conservative author said.
Postman's alternative to multiculturalism, like all the gods he suggests, has an almost religiously transcendent quality. "Diversity," as he defines it, encompasses the study of multiple languages (especially the English language, "the most multicultural language on Earth") in addition to comparative religion, sociology, anthropology and surprisingly, the study of...
IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS THE light. At a time when much of the world still huddled under blackouts, the crystalline blaze of San Francisco after dark looked like the very kingdom of heaven. This spectacle greeting the emissaries of 51 countries in April 1945 was an inspiration, for their...
The intensity of Heaney's poetry stems largely from a Roman Catholic temperament that has been baffled by doubt. "My language and my sensibility are yearning to admit a kind of religious or transcendent dimension," he once told an interviewer. "But then there's the reality: there's no heaven...