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The Agony or the Ecstasy? The Academy at the Crossroads.
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Wheal, James R. – Journal of Experiential Education, 2000
Contemporary schooling, particularly high schools, could benefit from a return to the model of Plato's Academy in which ecstatic experience provided a central and informative role in addressing the higher stages of human development. Supplementing traditional curricula with integral practices that address body, mind, and spirit, and reviving the…
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