I believe that all students can learn. I also believe that learning takes effort on the part of the student. I can’t open the top of a student’s head and pour knowledge into the brain like the Monty Python cartoon. Education comes from within.
Knowledge Can’t Be Poured In. But I can enable knowledge to grow.
Unlike the professors I experienced in my undergraduate days, I'm not out to “get the student.” I don’t like universities that rate their reputation on their flunk out rate. If dedicated, qualified students flunk out, then the university has failed.
I believe that the goal of students is to acquire, build, and integrate knowledge.
I
believe that the goal of the faculty is to enable the student to acquire,
build, and integrate knowledge.
I
believe that the goal of the university administration is to enable the
faculty to enable the student.
I am concerned with students who neglect their studies
to pursue (in excess) other activities that divert them from their immediate
goal.
I am concerned with faculty who neglect their teaching, in favor of “research” and publication.
I am concerned with an administration that neglects
its goal, and builds massive empires that gets in the way of faculty.