Author And Philanthropist Dale McGowan Shares Great Advice
The Best Advice Ever is a show on YouTube where fantastic people share the best advice they ever heard.
Dale McGowan sat down and shared a great story. Here is a bit of his bio from his site.
DALE McGOWAN has one foot in arts, the other in sciences, and the other in nonreligious life. He double-majored in music and evolutionary anthropology at UC Berkeley, then studied film scoring at UCLA before conducting a college orchestra while earning a Ph.D. in Composition from the University of Minnesota.”
Dale wrote Atheism for Dummies, Parenting Beyond Belief, and Raising Freethinkers. He also founded the humanist nonprofit Foundation Beyond Belief.
Here is part of our conversation.
Dale: OK well I realized when you asked that question there’s a little bit of a story to set it up. I was teaching at a Catholic women’s College in Minnesota. This is like 2003, and I was teaching in the Music Department but also teaching an interdisciplinary course that centered on critical thinking.
I became really uncomfortable with the disconnect between what I was supposed to be teaching in the classroom and this Catholic college and the way they treated the open exchange…
