I read this in a student's journal this morning. "Don't you love it
when
professors so carelessly say they care about us and think that's its enough
just to say it
when they don't act that way? Who are they kidding? Themselves! Not us!"
That got me thinking. Caring about each student is not shown in the
pronouncement, "I care about students." Claims to care or to be caring are
easy to come
by, but are no guarantee of genuine caring. There has to be a strong
connection between
conviction and virtue, that is, between word and deed. Not only must
professors feel that
something within them that forges a common bond with the students, but the
students must
feel as well that something within them that forges a common bond with the
professors. No,
caring is not really exercised when you care, but when you act with a guiding
sense of
awareness and otherness and service, and each student feels and knows she or he
is really
noticed, wanted, and cared about.
Make it a good day.
--Louis--
Louis Schmier www.therandomthoughts.com
Department of History www.newforums.com/L_Schmier.htm
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