Talk:Willi Unsoeld

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I've sorted out some references - can somebody try to help me put this in a recognizably chronological order???--Pafcwoody (talk) 00:26, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

He didn't "marry Jolene Unsoeld" because that wasn't her name at the time. It was Jolene Bishoprick. Recommend changing that text.Chrishavel (talk) 16:29, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

"The father of experiential education"??
"The father of experiential education"?? Come on. I knew Willi when I was a student at Evergreen. He not only was briefly a professor of mine, but we discussed him possibly mentoring me in the philosophy and psychology of religion, something Willi knew about as a scholar, not because he "experienced" something. During our office discussions, he impressed me (a young and embarrassingly ignorant 22 year-old) as someone who was very precise in his thinking, intellectually rigorous, and (as far as the life of the mind was concerned), very hard-nosed - quite the opposite of what "experiential education" was about in those days. Just because one person wrote something in a book doesn't make it true. Perhaps the author of this Wikipedia piece can give us some context for what that assertion means. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Isoruku (talk • contribs) 23:23, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

Leamur's book, apparently the source of the statement in question, had many virtues & despite its glaring faults, is probably the most honest thing ever written about Unsoeld. It's not complimentary toward its subject & probably tries a tad too hard (or not carefully enough) to bring Unsoeld down to earth. All his fans hated it & Leamur complained that the family froze him out on research.

Er, experiential education? I'd say that wasn't a very controversial part of the book really, although "father of" is mere hyperbole. After all, Unsoeld was quite the propagandist for Outward Bound & bla bla. I'd say the statement's accuracy, such as it is, is fairly self evident to the non-nitpicker who is familiar with the outlines of the topic. 38.131.225.246 (talk) 00:58, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

OK, I see your point there. Admittedly, he was an enthusiastic advocate of outdoor ed. I think my previous post was colored by my subjective experience which was just that - subjective. Isoruku (talk) 20:05, 19 April 2017 (UTC)