Thank you for my afternoon of memory lane moments. My daughter studied Euclidean geometry as part of a great books series. It reminds me how inadequate my encouragement toward her study was because I was ignorant of its importance in developing thinking as opposed to my “success” in education; the regurgitation of facts from memory. Having become dazed by the successive years the same, I made the mistake of dismissing what required me to think and reason and question effectively. I became an “honor student “ with neither great knowledge or the drive to innovate and create.
I share that to say thank you for your investment in the young men and women of Hildegard. They have an opportunity to be purposeful entrepreneurs because you and your colleagues refused to be lazy minded. You are making disciples of others made in His image realize their worth and potential.
The "honor student" label is especially problematic to me. I taught in an Honors College for many years. There was certainly a collective raising of the bar among well-prepared students. But what they were "well prepared" for was neither deep thought nor critical problem solving and creating. Sometimes universities reward and honor the wrong things.
Thank you for my afternoon of memory lane moments. My daughter studied Euclidean geometry as part of a great books series. It reminds me how inadequate my encouragement toward her study was because I was ignorant of its importance in developing thinking as opposed to my “success” in education; the regurgitation of facts from memory. Having become dazed by the successive years the same, I made the mistake of dismissing what required me to think and reason and question effectively. I became an “honor student “ with neither great knowledge or the drive to innovate and create.
I share that to say thank you for your investment in the young men and women of Hildegard. They have an opportunity to be purposeful entrepreneurs because you and your colleagues refused to be lazy minded. You are making disciples of others made in His image realize their worth and potential.
The "honor student" label is especially problematic to me. I taught in an Honors College for many years. There was certainly a collective raising of the bar among well-prepared students. But what they were "well prepared" for was neither deep thought nor critical problem solving and creating. Sometimes universities reward and honor the wrong things.