Mr. Malick turned to filmmaking, attending the American Film Institute, after studying at Harvard and Oxford, teachingphilosophy at MIT and working as a journalist for publications including Life and the New Yorker.
Brazil compounds the problem by training teachers in neither subject matter nor teaching skills (they learn about the philosophy of education instead).
This conference falls within the context of a series of workshops aimed to enhance dialogues between philosophers in Asian and Arab regions to broaden intercultural communication, and strengthen the role of philosophy in public policy, and to promote the teaching of non-Western philosophies around the world.
Afterward: My take on the Outward Bound leadership philosophy is a simplification of a far more sophisticated approach that Outward Bound has been teaching for decades.