An interesting piece appeared at The Atlantic over the weekend about how the humanities can be used in classes for police officers. Detective Ed Gillespie, who has a master's degree from Johns Hopkins, teaches a service training course in which he employs ideas and texts from Plato, Dostoyevsky, Baldwin, and other authors and philosophers. The goal is to help cops learn about Enlightenment and democratic notions of justice and respect, as well as literary aims like empathy. As a supplement to the procedural instruction most officers are used to in their academies, Gillespie hopes offering a more thorough understanding of the human condition, by studying great works of literature, can improve relations between cops and their communities. In my opinion, anything that gets people in any profession more exposure to great literature is a good idea.
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5/17/2018 04:05:48 am
you have done a great job i hope you will do much batter in the future
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AuthorDr. Spivey is a college English professor and lives in Scottsdale, Arizona. Archives
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