Susan asks…
what are some examples of resistance to hitler within germany?
no everyone would have liked him right? i’ve looked it up on google and everything i just can’t find any good information. any ideas? and where you got it from? thank you
weight loss cardiff answers:
The first group that comes to mind is the Society of the White Rose, organized at the University of Munich by a group od idealistic students and a philosophy professor. Their activities were discovered and I believe the entire group was executed by beheading.
Another example is an individual, a Lutheran theologian by the name of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. He spoke out against Nazism and, I believe, was also actively involved in a resistance movement. He’s probably best known for his statement, “They came for the Communists, but I was silent, because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and again, I was silent; I was not a trade unionists. Then they came for the Jews, and I was silent; I was not a Jew. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak.”
Donald asks…
What does your college encourage you to be?
Does your campus teach you how to be a good Employee? Busines Owner? Investor? Or Self-Employed?
I don’t understand this “College teaches you how to think” argument.
Shouldn’t colleges focus their time on instructing you how to be as wealthy as you possibly can? And how taking their classes will make you financially intelligent so you don’t have to slave away for an employer or deal with jerk customers?
If there’s time before classes end, then that’s when they should teach you how to think.
weight loss cardiff answers:
I am sure you’ll hate my answer, but colleges are NOT career training institutes. They are institutions for education, and college faculties aim to teach students to think critically, and to be well-rounded human beings. Career training is to be found at vocational or technical schools.
Increasingly, students have come to expect career training in undergraduate institutions, and universities have, in some respects, capitulated to these demands by creating business schools, schools of engineering, schools of education, and the like.
But from the first foundation of universities in medieval Europe, and through to the present day, post-secondary education at the university level always has been primarily centered upon the “school of arts and sciences,” in which students are taught to think well (across several disciplines of study that are generally known as the liberal arts).
Financial success has never been the central aim of education. That is the aim of business. Education and business remain, despite the increasing commodification of education, two distinct enterprises. As a matter of fact, in most any introductory philosophy course at a university, students learn that knowledge and virtue, NOT material prosperity, are the noblest aims. This is why EDUCATED human beings look to people like Aristotle, Lao-Tzu, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Jane Addams, Dorothy Day, and others like them, rather than to Bill Gates, Donald Trump, and others like them, for models of a life well-lived.
But you would have known all of this if you had studied philosophy, European history, American history, or even the history of education. These things are taught at colleges and universities. 😉
John asks…
Bonhoeffer’s connection between schooling and Nazism?
In a book by john taylor gatto, bonhoeffer is said to blame part of Nazism on schooling – “Propagandists have known for a century that school-educated people are easier to lead than ignorant people – as Dietrich Bonhoeffer confirmed in his studies of Nazism.”
Can you point me to a citation? There is none in the book.
Thanks!
weight loss cardiff answers:
Yes. Look under VII below, third paragraph:
http://www.unitedearth.com.au/education.html
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