Online Education Revisited: Hillsdale's Online Western Heritage Course: My Lecture on The Greek Miracle

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Paul A. Rahe

1/31/13

 

Back in August, when I was incarcerated at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, hoping that my lymphocele would dry up, I posted a piece regarding online education that stirred things up (it attracted 133 comments), and I followed up the next day with a piece defending philosophy against those inclined to think science the cat's pajamas. It drew an additional 96 comments.

 

 

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I have since then read Nathan Harden's impassioned endorsement of online education The End of the University as We Know It, and I was unmoved -- in part because I think that the real problem with higher education is that we are trying to educate everyone, which will not work; and in part because I had by that time had a bit of involvement with online education. To be precise, I had contributed two lectures to Hillsdale's Online Western Heritage Course. Here is the first of the two -- entitled The Greek Miracle. Its focus is the emergence of self-government in the eighth and seventh centuries B. C.

 

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For those interested in Ancient Greece

 

Introduction to Ancient Greek History with Donald Kagan