Archive for September, 1995

STUDENTS AS SEEDS

I had just open the door to go for a walk when the security motion light suddenly came on. My eye caught a barrage of yellow micro-bursts erupting to my right like a series of exploding flash bulbs. I turned towards my neighbor’s high wooden fence, nearly hidden by the rain-soaked, glistening, thick foliage of [...]

Comments off

STUDENT DEVELOPMENT: ACADEMIA’S “SECOND SON”

I was sitting on the floor in my office, a Tootsie Pop in my mouth, casually reading last quarter’s student journals as I prepared for the start of the new academic year, when a passage jumped up at me: I’ve learned a lot about a variety of life’s things in the two years I’ve been [...]

Comments off

HUMILITY, FAITH, AND TEACHING

No walking today. No weather report. I was just reading Jacob Bronowski’s _The Ascent of Man_ for the umpteenth time. I always learn something new each time I pick it up and travel through its pages. This time I haven’t read but a few pages when I was struck I something he said at the [...]

Comments off