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Yale’s Citizens Thinkers Writers summer program introduces New Haven high school students to foundational texts and connects their ideas to the present.
The three-day event will explore strategies for engaging high school students in challenging conversations about fundamental moral and political questions.
It is August, and I am arriving at a lecture hall far below the stairs of the Humanities Quadrangle. Plato and Gilgamesh shroud my mind, and the Hebrew Bible is somewhere in the back knocking on the front door; hours in attempt of pouring over their meaning weigh heavily over me. The lecture hall’s interior is a lowly-lit labyrinth of nervous, but enthusiastic students, full of an inviting presence that I did not previously associate with Directed Studies.