How Can Higher Education Foster Character Growth?
Author David Brooks returns to Interfaith America with Eboo Patel to discuss the role of universities in supporting students’ moral formation.
Voices of Interfaith America · Noah Silverman, Eboo Patel, David Brooks, Silma Suba, Manny Faces, Keisha TK Dutes, Johanna Zorn
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Show Notes
Following a spring semester when universities made headlines, columnist, author, and Professor David Brooks joins Eboo to discuss the need for institutions of higher education to teach diverse viewpoints, broaden definitions of success beyond traditional measures of intelligence, and nurture students as whole persons. Reflecting on past and current trends of hyper conformity and the pressures placed on students, they also explore the potential for university life to guide moral character and model the connection between the political and the spiritual.
Guest Bio: Best-selling author David Brooks is a columnist for The New York Times, a commentator on “The PBS Newshour,” and a frequent analyst on NPR’s “All Things Considered.” He has been a senior editor at The Weekly Standard, a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Atlantic, and op-ed editor at The Wall Street Journal. Brooks is the founder of Weave: The Social Fabric Project at the Aspen Institute, and his most recent book, “How to Know a Person” was published in 2023.
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