Ralph Borsodi Learning And Living Book

Ralph Borsodi Learning And Living Book

Ralph Borsodi worked for a just, safe and secure lifestyle, focusing on the individual, the family and the community.  That objective requires a robust, life-long, educational program.  That program is the primary subject of this book.  This book also covers Borsodi’s economic system, his advocacy of decentralism and much of his publication history.  He devoted much of his long life to developing educational programs to help people achieve these objectives.  In 1934 Borsodi established his School of Living where he offered both training in practical skills and a program of adult, lifelong education designed to bring out the best of each of us.  He developed a seminal problem- centered framework for education and the organization of the accumulated knowledge of humankind.  These problems he defined as universal – problems all people around the Earth and through all time have worked to solve.  He offered seminars to help people clarify their values and beliefs, and understanding the world, nature and human nature.  He advocated a lifelong education around a study of the collective wisdom of humanity as a whole.  His seminars also included the practical problems of life – earning a livelihood, building community, organizing collective efforts, good heath, the family.  He founded an experimental community university graduate program focused on and further developing his problem-centered framework of education.  Borsodi published a series of books including Education and Living (1948), a landmark text of development of the optimum individual, family and community.  Education and Living he asserted is a decentralist handbook.  The objective is strong, localized communities and economy.  He wrote that Education and Living “is nothing less than an effort to explain not only modern man’s failure to achieve the good life … but also to outline the manner in which he might learn how to live like a normal human being.”  The system is not merely a method for solving problems.  It is a teaching tool that develops the capacity for living a good life.  Underlying this method is developing that quality mindedness Borsodi wrote about in This Ugly Civilization (1929).  It is a program for seeking the essence of what it means to live as a human being.  Invited for an extended stay in India to work with Gandhian agrarian educators he wrote The Education of the Whole Man (1963) which presented the theoretical foundation of his system.  This book provided a university-level curriculum to prepare leaders for an agrarian renaissance, a Green Revolution.  That was followed by his masterwork, Seventeen Problems of Man and Society, with which he provided an introductory text to the universal problems of living.  Borsodi was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of New Hampshire for his work in education and economics.  This is the second of two volumes about Borsodi’s work, the first, Ralph Borsodi, A Confident Future:  The Green Revolution, focuses on Borsodi’s pioneering new agrarian program to develop self-sufficient homesteads and communities.  These two books seek to restore Borsodi’s extraordinary legacy and lay the foundation for further development of his system that is being pursued by this author and colleagues.
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