JUDY:How do those of us who choose to read To Understand, who believe in living
the 'intellectually engaged life,' arouse the interest of our colleagues? How
do we help adults want to lead intellectually engaged lives?
BEV:
I don't know the answer to your question, but I do know the answer to another
question. And that answer is that if a person is to remain in education as a
lifelong career, it is essential (for survival) to lead an intellectually
engaged life, and groups such as this make an enormous difference to teachers
who appear to be "alone." We've always had books and their authors with which
we can "converse" if we have no "significant other" intellectual on staff.
But, of course, those conversations are a bit unresponsive and one-sided. The
advent of these groups such as Mosaic and Understand has seemed to me to be a
break-through for the teacher who is "stranded." The reason I wanted to give
you that answer is that I believe we first have to sustain ourselves no matter
where we are or who we are with, which doesn't seem too hard for a few years,
but it's a far more formidable task for the thirty-seven I've spent. Probably
not the answer you needed, but it's an important one.
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