Welcome to this Jungian life. Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Marchiano,

Deborah Stewart, and Joseph Lee invite you to join them for an intimate and honest conversation

that brings a psychological perspective to important issues of the day. I'm Lisa Marchiano,

and I'm a Jungian analyst in Philadelphia. I'm Joseph Lee, and I'm a Jungian analyst in Philadelphia.

I'm Joseph Lee and I'm a Jungian analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

I'm Deborah Stewart, a Jungian analyst on Cape Cod.

Today, just as schools all over the country are letting out for the summer, we're going to talk about the archetype of school.

What exactly do we mean by school? Well, it's an institution.

It's a place that provides learning for students environmentally

and through teachers, of course. And there are lots and lots of different kinds of schools.

There are religious schools, private schools, specialized schools, alternative schools, homeschools, graduate schools.

What exactly are we talking about when we talk about school?

You know, Deb, it's interesting when you ask the question, what is school?

Because when I think about our modern educational system as it's currently formulated in the

United States, it's a relatively recent innovation. It's only maybe a couple hundred years old

that we have formalized state-sponsored schools. But of course, as you point out, school is archetypal

in the sense of a place of formal transmission of knowledge, usually from one generation down to the next.

I would like to say, though, because this was a little fun Wikipedia moment, is that apparently the University of Karooim in Morocco was founded

in 859 AD. So the idea of the university is kind of ancient, and even before that, the Sumerians

had formal scribal schools and they have evidence

that that was as much as 3,500 BC.

This gives us some sense because of the span of time that this has happened, that this is an

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