“Wider” Education and Communiversities

What is education for and what kind of education do we need?

• We need education-for-community, in-community, and about-community.

• We need “communiversities”— non-hierarchical, inclusive, public centers of education for the enrichment and advancement of community life.

• We need wider education as much as, if not more than, we need higher education.

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“We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world.

We have been wrong.

We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that what is good for the world will be good for us.

And that requires that we make the effort to know the world and learn what is good for it.”

— Wendell Berry—