Greening Education: The Next Millennium - Afterword
—Stewardship of Public Lands: A Handbook 2010

"Greening Education: The Next Millennium." Afterword, pages 191-196 in American Association of State Colleges and Universities, Stewardship of Public Lands: A Handbook for Educators. Washington: American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU), 2010. ©2010 American Association of State Colleges and Universities.
Online at: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/38999

College students today need to be wiser than Socrates, who sought wisdom but avoided nature. John Muir left Wisconsin University for the University of the Wilderness. No education is complete without a concept of nature, and no ethics is complete until one has an appropriate respect for fauna, flora, landscapes and ecosystems. "Who am I?" leads to more inclusive questions: "Where on Earth am I?" "What on Earth ought we to be doing?" Without a three-dimensional education - experience of the urban, the rural, and the wild - students will be under-privileged. The educated person today does not want to live a denatured life, or to live on a denatured planet.