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Two cultures in military education.

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| June 22, 2004 | Farrell, Alan | COPYRIGHT 2004 Rapid Intellect Group, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Abstract

Borrowing C.P. Snow's "two cultures," the author insists that, no matter what apparent distance separates the military from the academic world, a citizen's curriculum must share the rostrum with the military regimen. Lessons in human value and passion from literature, in judgment and expression from language, in eccentric thinking and analogy from poetry, in the physical world and its limits from mathematics, science, engineering, in human behavior from psychology, economics, history, sociology complement military discipline with its eclipse of personal fantasy; its denial of latitude; its surrender of privacy. The military ethos, though, becomes the ...

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