The document is a letter from Professor Aidan LaFeber responding to a question about whether the first human was singular or plural.
LaFeber argues that the origins of humanity were both singular and plural. On one hand, humanity's genesis is an individual, intimate event of one being contemplating their own mortality. However, for this realization to be epistemologically objective requires another to witness the certainty of death in one's eyes.
The conclusions drawn indicate that the date of humanity's origin was not related to brain size or bipedalism, but was rather a psychological or spiritual process requiring the moment when one sees in another's eyes and can say "I know." The first human was the first dead
CKBMAX is the development of human potential through new education. This means that education is no longer seen as the mere transmission of knowledge or the certification of students. Traditional educational systems were created in the industrial age. Their mission was to produce workers who had the requisite skills – reading, writing, math – to join industrial society. Today's globalized economy calls for a new conceptualization of education, one where knowledge is dynamic and socially constructed, where the student is an active discoverer, owner, and transformer of knowledge into personally significant meaning.
CKBMAX is the development of human potential through new education. This means that education is no longer seen as the mere transmission of knowledge or the certification of students. Traditional educational systems were created in the industrial age. Their mission was to produce workers who had the requisite skills – reading, writing, math – to join industrial society. Today's globalized economy calls for a new conceptualization of education, one where knowledge is dynamic and socially constructed, where the student is an active discoverer, owner, and transformer of knowledge into personally significant meaning.