Ben Dunlap tells the story of Sandor Teszler, a Hungarian man he met at Wofford College. In telling Teszler's dramatic life story, which arcs from the Holocaust to the American Deep South of the 1950s, Dunlap shares some deep and, ultimately, moving lessons about justice -- and the power of lifelong learning. Sit back and listen.
Ben Dunlap was a dancer for four years with the Columbia City Ballet, kicking off a life of artistic and cultural exploration. A Rhodes Scholar, he did his PhD in English literature at Harvard, and is now the president of Wofford College, a small liberal arts school in South Carolina. He has taught classes on a wide variety of subjects, from Asian history to creative writing.
He's also a writer-producer for television, and his 19-part series The Renaissance has been adopted for use by more than 100 colleges. He has been a Senior Fulbright Lecturer in Thailand and a moderator at the Aspen Institute.
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by Patricia, on January 24 2008:
Human beings are fundamentally good!!!
by Andres, on January 25 2008:
'What these two men were revealing was the secret of their extraordinary success each in its own right, and it laid precisely in that insatiable curiosity, that irrepressible desire to know',
'Live each day as as if it is your last, live as if you'll live forever', said Mahatma Gandhi. This is what I'm passionate about. It is precisely this, it is this inextinguishable undaunted appetite for learning and experiencing no matter [what]. This defines our imagined futures.[..] This is our task and we know it will be hard.'
"inextinguishable undaunted appetite for learning and experiencing" - i know *exactly* what he means!
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