Life: b. August 5, 1930
Birthday: August 5
...a college education feeds an adolescent in one end and gets a young adult out the other. In the process of those four years that person has changed significantly, and you and I have been agents of that change.....what happens, in the course of what we do, is soul making.
Topics: Teaching, College, Years
...if use is not an appropriate criterion for decision making in the academic life, what is? Love. ...The virtues of love as a criterion for choosing a college major...it is not pretentious. "Use" is pretentious because it claims to know something about the future that it doesn't really know. Love is immediate... [love] guarantees that you will work to your highest potential...it is part of who you are, and not just something you think, often wrongly, that you can use.
Topics: Teaching, College, Love Is, Academic Life
Socrates asks him the crucial question about education, and that is, If you study with this fellow, what will he make of you?
Topics: Learning, Study, Asks
