From Physics to Peace: Finding New Truths with Robert Fuller

Product Description

This is an inspiring, engrossing tale of one man’s odyssey from physics professor and college president to citizen diplomat, searching for “a better game than war.” Fresh, candid and compassionate, he challenges us all in new ways to find our passion and respond to it, to think about our values and the nature of change and risk. He advocates a creative and sensitive approach to the education of young people, offering inspiring examples from his own experience and hope for world peace through such an approach. (For other New Dimensions dialogues with Robert Fuller find programs #1803, #1988, #2044, #2091, #2672, #2869, #2891, #2896, #2983, #3069, #3152)

Fuller is president emeritus of Oberlin College and the founder of the Mo Tzu Project. He’s traveled extensively in communist countries and troubled spots around the world. He earned a PhD in physics at Princeton University and taught at Columbia University before becoming the president of Oberlin College. He served for many years as chairman of the global nonprofit media organization, Internews. He is the author of Somebodies and Nobodies: Overcoming the Abuse of Rank (New Society Publishers 2003) and All Rise: Somebodies, Nobodies, and the Politics of Dignity (Berrett Koehler 2006). To find out more information about the work of Robert Fuller go to www.breakingranks.net

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Host: Michael Toms Interview Date: 5/26/1988