I interrupt my series on teaching with passion with an important reflection. I was in this South Georgia outdoor sauna sweating and whiffing by my flower garden when my cell phone rang. It did not take long before I was listening with intense ears to an harangue, gentle in tone but not in meaning, [...]
So, how does passion work in me and work for my teaching? Although I have a “steady as it goes” course, I am prone to passionately use passionate words like “excited,” “turned on,” and “on a high” to describe myself at those times when I am around students. That’s one of the situations when [...]
My epiphany on that fateful day in late 1991, was one of those hinges in my life. It was a moment when my destiny heading toward selfishly ever-lengthening my scholarly resume skidded to a halt, made a right angle turn, and then lurched forward in a new direction ever faster toward selfless servant teaching. [...]
Teaching with passion is being in a “groove.” Ever been in a groove? It’s far from a rut. And, unlike a rut, I won’t want to get out of it once I get into it, for once I am, there is no stopping. I’ve got the rhythm. I can overcome almost anything. I can [...]
This quiet, noisy, hometown, backyard, fire-cracking, parading weekend we Americans are celebrating self-evident truths to which we hold, which define us as a people, and which make us quite unique–and great. These truths, as George Will recently wrote, are what we choose to believe, how we dream to live, how we strive to make [...]
