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A road we have followed over
3,415 miles down to the Cape
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Verde islands.
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On the wall of Baltasar
Lopes, photographs
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from the Sao Nicolau seminary,
when the Cape Verde islands
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were still a Portuguese colony.
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Logically, the Portuguese
or Latin people
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were Greece\'s true heirs.
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But after their
fight for freedom
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alongside Amilcar
Cabral, Cape Verdeans
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can now claim that heritage.
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The education that one receives
in the humanities in certainly
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Western Europe and
the United States is,
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by and large, founded
by the Sophists
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and continued by Socrates.
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It\'s the education
in thinking, arguing,
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whether orally or now usually
in the writing of papers,
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the digesting of material
and arguing intelligently
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about subject matter that quite
often is incapable of proof one
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way or the other.
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And one\'s skill
in argumentation,
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one\'s demonstrated ability
to outshine, again,
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other students or other
members of your company
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in writing reports and
supplying material,
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is what gets you ahead in life.
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And the humanistic education
in its negative dimensions,
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insofar as it is providing a
service to corporate America,
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if you like, is training people
to do those kinds of things
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in just the same way
that Socrates\' education
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or the education of
Protagoras and Gorgias
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in the late fifth century
was training people
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to be good citizens, successful
citizens, to be better
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than their peers.
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The enormous problem
in the United States,
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and probably in Western
Europe as a whole,
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is that when you
leave the university
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with this body of
knowledge, these techniques
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of argumentation, of thinking,
this mental flexibility, if you
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like, and perhaps
heightened moral awareness,
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if you\'re lucky, there is
nothing for you to do with it.
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There\'s no community
to which you
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feel you belong which you
can then go and work for.
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At least for many of
us, that is the problem.
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That\'s why perhaps
some of us decided
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to go back into the
university again, and look
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at it some more, and
stay insulated that way.
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But it still seems
to me that that kind
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of an educational tradition
is one that is specifically
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Greek in foundation,
and something
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that we should not neglect.
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--who has the knowledge.
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One of them has the
knowledge and tries
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to transmit it in various ways.
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So one is the leader and
the other one is the pupil,
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or if you want, the analysand.
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A sortie through the
streets of Athens,
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where every plaque is a signpost
for an adventure in language.
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But a maze within that maze
may bring us further back
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into a world whose language
is still open to choice,
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or reaches towards the
extremity of language,
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the point which no
language is able to touch,
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which we call music.
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Let\'s imagine that
the fate of the logos
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is logomachy, the
wrestle with words,
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that music be the
food of self-renewal
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and self-purification.
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And let\'s call it, to use
yet another Greek word,
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a hypothesis.
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