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Change, Growth and New Learning

by: Bill Moyers Journal  |  t r u t h o u t | Programming Note

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Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot. (Photo: Bill Greene / The Boston Globe)

Airtime: Friday, August 7, 2009, at 9:00 PM (EDT) on PBS (check local listings here).

    "Change, growth, and new learning" - there's a cultural shift in America, says Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot. This Friday, Bill Moyers speaks with one of America's leading educators and author of "The Third Chapter: Passion, Risk, and Adventure in the 25 Years After 50." Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot is the first African-American woman in the history of Harvard to have an endowed professorship named in her honor. She's been on the faculty for 37 years, and her career as a scholar has won her the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship and the George Ledlie prize for research. And photographic artist Chris Jordan turns the statistics of consumerism into palpable images in his startling series "Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait" and "Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption."

  

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I've been an educator,

 Thu, 08/06/2009 - 16:19 — Anonymous (not verified)
I've been an educator, storyteller for over 27 years. My work took me to 1000 of schools What I saw is a strong cultural degradation in America where the Corporate-culture became the dominate force and resulted in a weird blind consumerists world where the advertisements of products speak louder than one's rational thoughts. Children are not given opportunity to cultivate their own inner creativity and a chance to think for themselves. It's the Disney culture, its the brand name culture and its the corporate America cultre that speaks for us, Americans. I like someone to respond to my thinking here. Thanks!

I wish, sometimes, that

 Thu, 08/06/2009 - 16:30 — Anonymous (not verified)
I wish, sometimes, that people who weren't famous would be interviewed as evidence for premises like exciting lives after 50. Exceptions don't prove a rule.

My only accomplishment was

 Thu, 08/06/2009 - 19:26 — eval (not verified)
My only accomplishment was staying alive through part of WWII and (so far) 83 yrs of living in this ever crazier world; my main beliefs being that crazy= normal and that one should avoid falling into the hands of institutions as much as possible. Something I read as a child brainwashed me into believing that education equals brainwashing so I avoided even that, though I've always tried to learn as much as possible. This is my partial attempt to respond to "I've been an educator,"