Understanding civics, from the classroom to the city
Yale’s Citizens Thinkers Writers summer program introduces New Haven high school students to foundational texts — and connects their ideas to the present.
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Yale’s Citizens Thinkers Writers summer program introduces New Haven high school students to foundational texts — and connects their ideas to the present.
The three-day event will explore strategies for engaging high school students in challenging conversations about fundamental moral and political questions.
The “Dean’s Dialogue” series, hosted by Yale College Dean Pericles Lewis, models respectful, curious, and candid conversation about difficult topics.
It is August, and I am arriving at a lecture hall far below the stairs of the Humanities Quadrangle. Plato and Gilgamesh shroud my mind, and the Hebrew Bible is somewhere in the back knocking on the front door; hours in attempt of pouring over their meaning weigh heavily over me. The lecture hall’s interior is a lowly-lit labyrinth of nervous, but enthusiastic students, full of an inviting presence that I did not previously associate with Directed Studies.
They made the intellectual case for Trump. Now they believe the country is in a cultural civil war.