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...Buddha, from Socrates to Gandhi, imploring us to yield to the age-old Delphic command, “know thyself,” the time is ripe for students to cease rattling off the negatives of a creative writing concentration’s “navel-gazing?? and recognize the veritas it offers...

Author: By Thomas E. Gaffney, | Title: Inward Focus Needed for True Education | 12/15/2003 | See Source »

...Buddha, from Socrates to Gandhi, imploring us to yield to the age-old Delphic command, “know thyself,” the time is ripe for students to cease rattling off the negatives of a creative writing concentration’s “navel-gazing?? and recognize the veritas it offers...

Author: By Thomas E. Gaffney, | Title: Inward Focus Needed for True Education | 12/14/2003 | See Source »

...focus is also an integral part of what we are supposed to do in college: ground our identities firmly, so that we can recognize where we end, where the world begins, and how we and the world are connected. Perhaps my creative writing can be an exercise in navel-gazing??but the creative process, like our studies, can be self-orientation as well as self-study: not only a means of expression, but also a way of fitting ourselves into a larger system. If these two things are kept balanced as I write, then I feel much less...

Author: By Catherine L. Tung, | Title: The Trouble Of Self-Study | 12/8/2003 | See Source »

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