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Wendell Berry on Education

Join Dr. Gamble and co-host Dr. Tom St. Antoine, Director of Honors at Palm Beach Atlantic University, for a conversation about the meaning and purpose of education in the work of Kentucky novelist Wendell Berry. Throughout Berry’s novels and essays, he addresses the tendency of modern education to draw young people away from their homes and communities. Implicitly and explicitly, they are taught that success in life means leaving behind family to find their way in the world “someplace else.” Modern schools, from elementary to higher education, have ceased to belong to the communities they are meant to serve. Berry helps us to reconsider what we love and the kind of education that cultivates proper love for the things to which we belong.