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Rachel Silber Devlin

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The Learning Curve
The Learning Curve

A Daughter’s Memoir of B.U.‘s Dr. John Silber

This week on The Learning Curve, Cara and Gerard talk with Rachel Silber Devlin about her memoir, Snapshots of My Father, John Silber, which captures the wide-ranging and remarkable life of the late philosopher, teacher, and president of Boston University. Devlin discusses how her father became known as a vigorous proponent of a traditional liberal arts education, improved the prestige and endowment at B.U., and became a national leader in K-12 education reform. She offers listeners a unique, personal look at a man and an educational leader who had a deep commitment to academic quality, music, and the arts, and capped his career by authoring books on the absurdity of modern architectural fads and the ethics of Immanuel Kant. Stories of the Week Cara discussed a New Yorker article that chronicles the decline of the English major and the study of humanities in general. In a society that seems increasingly focused on STEM careers, she wonders what we may be losing when we have so few students studying the humanities.
Hosts:
Cara CandalGerard Robinson
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Pioneer Institute