A conservative columnist’s ode to The Boss
November 27th, 2009 at 08:56am Pat Cunningham
 
 David Brooks SAYS he’s learned a thing or two from Bruce Springsteen.
 An excerpt:
 For reasons having to do with the peculiarities of our civilization, we pay a great deal of attention to our scholastic educations, which are formal and supervised, and we devote much less public thought to our emotional educations, which are unsupervised and haphazard. This is odd, since our emotional educations are much more important to our long-term happiness and the quality of our lives.
 In any case, over the next few decades Springsteen would become one of the professors in my second education. In album after album he assigned a new course in my emotional curriculum.
Entry Filed under: David Brooks, Bruce Springsteen
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1. Dave Barrett | November 27th, 2009 at 11:27 am
Bruce Springsteen may have influenced David Brooks’ thinking in some ways but not near enough, to my way of thinking. For example, I would love to see a David Brooks column praising the life of Pete Seeger, like a true disciple of Springsteen, but am not holding my breath.
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