Higher education must return to that ideal. Learning in the coming years must be a holistic experience involving the complete person, not just an abstract thinking process. The self-reliance courses also suggest concrete answers for the resource and ecological problems raised by the Spaceship Earth courses and for the threats to freedom and ethics raised by the technology evaluation courses. By relying more on themselves, people quell the spectre of 1984's Big Brother. Self-reliant people empower themselves and weaken centralized control of food, health, and energy resources.
Conserving lifestyles reduce the drain on world resources.
But we've persevered and succeeded in getting our program through. Students love the courses. Although some only fit one or two into a packed schedule as electives, we hope that little crack may be a wedge that some day will let more light into their lives. Please send comments to webmaster Last Updated 29 June 2000 .