Not Till We Are Lost: Thoreau, Education, and Climate Crisis

By William Homestead

William Homestead takes readers inside the classroom, where most students are following the dictates of market-model education--interwoven with the cult of consumerism, techno-addictions, and the understandable need to get a job--rather than exploring their inner lives and responding to our collective lostness in an age of climate crisis. For Homestead, the "lucrative standard" must be balanced with turning within and listening to deeper wells, expressed in differing traditions as the Greek daemon, the "still, small voice" of Christian mysticism, Jung's process of individuation, and especially Emersonian self-reliance. Humanity is called by inner intelligence in sympathy with ecosystem intelligence and the soul of the world. As Thoreau modeled, such deep listening, and then acting on what we learn, is the deeper measure of being educated. Lest we lead lives of quiet desperation, we desperately need an educational system that mirrors this reality.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881469483
• ISBN13: 9780881469486
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Mercer University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"