OMNIA has shared a video of Professor McDaniel's recent talk on his popular classes "Living Deliberately" and "Existential Despair."
The point of all it, he told a packed room in Irvine Auditorium, is to give students a chance to learn that education isn’t about accumulation and performance, that it’s about more than preparing for a career. The intent, he says, is to allow students the opportunity to engage with texts that are “simply worth talking about. They love it—and it has nothing to do with the teacher. This is just good material. Give them the time and space to delve into it.”