You know, I’m collapsed here in the Atlanta airport, waiting to board the plane that will carry me back to my Susan’s arms. I’m brain tired and physically exhausted, and in a few days I’m facing a tryptophan coma induced by a caloric overdose. For you outside the States, that means that [...]
I’m starting to put on my Lilly conference game face and getting myself in the groove. Reading David Brook’s column in yesterday’s NY TIMES (11/15) certainly helped. It was timely since it fits in with what I was thinking about. Curious, for my Holocaust course, I have been reading Daniel Goleman’s VITAL LIES, SIMPLE TRUTHS [...]
Be love, now. Be faith, now. Be hope, now. Be empathy, now. Be compassion, now. Be all these things, unconditionally, now. Respect life and every life, now, for it and they are so short. We don’t have an language in academia to talk about this kind of unorthodox thing. To most academics “A Teacher’s [...]
Back to my conversation with this professor at Lilly-North about my “Teacher’s Oath.” “I’ve found that professors become so easily jaded, resigned, annoyed, angered almost in proportion to the extent the classroom to them isn’t the most important, meaningful academic place to be and teaching isn’t the most crucial academic thing to do. It’s also like something [...]
I thought initially those two-liners that I sent back to that professor. I thought that first line said it all about what should be our view towards students, but now slowly I’m beginning to see it means more, especially having added that second line. It also means what should our view be towards ourselves. To [...]
