.60Minutes travels to the remote California desert, home of Deep Springs College, for a different type of remote learning.
In a remote valley deep in the California desert lies an experiment in higher education like no other. Here, at Deep Springs College, roughly two dozen students study great books and perform difficult, manual labor on a working ranch. They do this without any of the usual staples of college life – there is no drinking at Deep Springs, there are no football games and students can't even leave the valley while class is in session, except in rare circumstances.
"The desert has a deep personality; it has a voice," Nunn wrote."Great leaders in all ages have sought the desert and heard its voice. You can hear it if you listen, but you cannot hear it while in the midst of uproar and strife for material things."The world has changed a lot since Deep Springs opened in 1917, and though it's left to the student body to determine what isolation means in practice, the principle has remained a constant.
Deep Springs is predicated on the idea that this unique mixture of environment and circumstances – isolation, rigorous academics, difficult labor and a degree of autonomy – can produce the leaders of tomorrow. The college is a highly selective two-year program, after which students usually transfer to some of the most competitive universities in the country.
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