Writing and meditating are naturally allied activities. Both are important for their own sake, and through each people can practice the other. Relating the two by means of a bridging concept, that of inner speech, brings out aspects of all three that can illuminate old educational goals and identify new ones. To work with this three-way interrelationship, we must construe writing in its highest...
SERIOUS INTERDISCIPLINARY EDUCATION at the university level is widely acknowledged to be necessary for survival in a technological age of accelerating complexity. Grant money is earmarked for interdisciplinary experiments; students are excited by new courses which invite them to connect isolated components of knowledge in meaningful ways. Recently, I was one of eleven professors from four...