After a week rather ventilated by holidays (Labor Day, Rosh Hashanah), the school year has well and truly begun. As evidence I offer you images from my two academic classes. Above, carefully mapped concentric circles represent the philosophy of education of Nicholas Murray Butler and the squiggle that of John Dewey as the New School history class discussion section wrestled with foundational questions about the nature, purpose and methods of education. Below a loosely-organized brainstorm from this year's Theorizing Religion class on the old chestnut, "what is religion?"
