“I don’t know how you attend to all those students as you say you do. I wish I could, but I just don’t have the time for them,” a professor wrote me in response to the words I’ve written since my return from China a little more than ten days ago. “For what do you [...]
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Thinking of the words those two students wrote, I know that the guiding light of our teaching should be to spread an aura of goodness, to help others become better persons rather than merely more informed or more skilled wage earners we call professionals or otherwise. That’s the stuff of which making a significant difference [...]
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Good morning, night, evening, whatever. We back. It was an adventurous six weeks of eating interesting things, being in interesting places, and meeting interesting people. But, it’s good to be home. Kinda. While Susan and I don’t have to sleep literally on the plywood boards that double as mattresses in the dorms at Zhengzhou University [...]
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