Episode 62: Wisdom Road

If you had an RV full of gas and the opportunity to spend months traveling anywhere you wanted to go, what journeys would you take? It sounds like some sort of icebreaker question, but for Grant Lichtman, it was a passion project that became the Wisdom Road. He traveled North America in search of perspectives, traditions, and knowledge our society is in danger of losing, and he’s sharing his experience with New View EDU host Debra Wilson.

Guest: Grant Lichtman

Resources, Transcript, and Expanded Show Notes

In This Episode:

• “There was also something about the idea that we in America must still share some strong and powerful things that we agree on, or we wouldn't probably still be a country that has hung together well. And yet we know we're existing in a time of incredible divisiveness. And could I find the reasons for that by talking with people, not the people we hear from all the time on the evening news or our social influencers or our social media feed, but just regular folks?” (6:08)
• “Let me tell you, it only took a week or two and shedding that responsibility, or shedding that feeling, that I needed to get my point across, that I needed to somehow debate people, was one of the great releases of my entire life…To be in a situation where my only role was to say, no matter what people told me, my only role was to say, thank you so much. And could you tell me more about that? Or can we explore more why you think that?…I was not in a position of having to do what I'd done my whole life, which is defend or argue or debate or any of that stuff.” (18:10)
• “I believe there is nothing more important for educators to focus on than teaching ourselves and our students, not in one class your freshman year in high school, but deeply embedding into our system of education, how to go about having and maintaining civility and civil conversations and civil discourse with the quote unquote ‘other.’” (33:01)
• Related Episodes: 55, 50, 46, 37, 32, 24, 17,15, 9, 4

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