Joseph Tussman
American philosopher (1914 to 2005); professor of philosophy at UC Berkeley, director of its Experimental College Program from 1965 to 1969, author of Obligation and the Body Politic (1960) and The Burden of Office (1989).
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Their wordsI think if there's going to be a revival of significant undergraduate or liberal education it will probably have to occur in places that are not dominated by a graduate school.
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Their wordsI think student choice is a disaster.
↗Education and Citizenship: Conversation with Joseph Tussman (Conversations with History, UC Berkeley), page 5: Lessons Learnedweb.archive.org 1st of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsI regard all education as essentially initiation into some ongoing social activity.
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Their wordsIn my view, the conception of politics has been corrupted by the conception of the marketplace.
↗Education and Citizenship: Conversation with Joseph Tussman (Conversations with History, UC Berkeley), page 2: The Art of Politicsweb.archive.org 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsBut I think when a citizen is called on to make a decision politically, he's supposed to ask himself about what's good, in his judgment, for the welfare of the community and not what's good for himself.
↗Education and Citizenship: Conversation with Joseph Tussman (Conversations with History, UC Berkeley), page 2: The Art of Politicsweb.archive.org 2nd of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsThe intellectual life isn't the life of selling ideas, it's the life of coming together to try to determine the truth and significance of things.
↗Education and Citizenship: Conversation with Joseph Tussman (Conversations with History, UC Berkeley), page 5: Lessons Learnedweb.archive.org 2nd of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsA marketplace is all right for a marketplace, that's where you go to shop. But as I've put it somewhere, real life begins after you leave the store.
↗Education and Citizenship: Conversation with Joseph Tussman (Conversations with History, UC Berkeley), page 5: Lessons Learnedweb.archive.org 3rd of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsI'm a great believer in the American Constitution. I think it provides a set of institutions and a program for making decisions together as a community that are flexible and hospitable and can be used, and I think we're very lucky to operate within their framework.
↗Education and Citizenship: Conversation with Joseph Tussman (Conversations with History, UC Berkeley), page 5: Lessons Learnedweb.archive.org 4th of 4 in this piece
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