Expanding the Case for Educating the Whole Child
AVID Center
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 7:04AM
By Bill Madigan
First in a series of three blogs on education and ethics.
All of us in the world are still suffering the consequences of the economic collapse of 2008. On September 29, 2008, $1.2 trillion dollars of market value was lost, with much more to follow for weeks and months afterwards. Both blindness and greed influenced this depressing economic collapse. As Tim Adams states in an article written for the British newspaper The Observer, “The individual corporate men who catastrophically lost billions of dollars and, on the other side of those bets, the extraordinary ragtag of obsessive individuals who saw what was coming and made eye-watering fortunes.” Even though these people possessed advanced academic university degrees, something more was amiss. These people were blind and out of balance.



