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North Star’s Mike Taubman: What a moral philosophy course offers high school students

  • November 2, 2023

Nov 2, 2023

At the 50th anniversary of Stanford University’s Structured Liberal Education (SLE) seminar, North Star teacher and Stanford graduate Mike Taubman gave a lecture on “Searching Together for the Common Good” and talked about transposing this course to the high school environment.

“The first aspect of SLE’s culture that is powerful for high school kids is the challenge, the same challenge we all faced going into SLE, when you take a tenth grader or an eleventh grader or a twelfth grader, and you give them moral philosophy. You give them these books. They feel intimidated, for sure, but they also feel respected by the challenge,” Taubman said.

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