In this age of ever increasing focus on quantitative assessing, vocationalizing, and credentializing of the collegiate experience, I think we ought to stop, take a deep breath, and reflect on just what is an education and if there is more to it than all this? Isn’t that the proverbial $64,000 question that has been asked [...]
Zhengzhou, May 23: Diary, a Chinese student asked me what is the most important thing she as a student should be taught by a teacher. ”Isn’t it facts to learn?” I thought for a moment and answered, “No! It’s what I call ‘the Three “Ls.”‘” She looked at me. I knew she didn’t understand. So, [...]
As my semester begins, I interrupt my China diary once again with something that, for a variety of reasons I won’t mention, just came to me as I walked the dark streets, seeing clearly in the dark with my glasses-less 20/20 vision. Medical institutions house expensive technology and scores of trained medical professionals for the [...]
Zhengzhou, May 24. Diary, I had lunch with that same student I mentioned before. We kind of hit it off. Anyway, in the course of our conversation about teaching during which I told her about my educational philosophy and how I teach, she asked me if I was a spiritualist. ”You sound so much like [...]
Zhengzhou, May 22: Diary, this will be short and sweet. ”I’m resigned to just go along even though I don’t want to. I have no choice,” a colleague forlornly told me about a situation at his college….”Oh, sure you do.” I empathetically but empathetically softly answered, “if you’re willing to pay the price. Besides, don’t [...]
Doggone, it’s hot, humid, mosquitoey and gnatty down here in South Georgia: temperatures hovering around 98-100 F with heat factors of 105-112F. It’s downright spiritually toasty down here, melting you into becoming one with nature. And, talking about hot, back to my China diary: Zhengzhou, May 21. Dear diary, over the past twenty years, I [...]
