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This week in my composition course, I suggested to the students that there may be more costs to their education than tuition alone. I’m trying to use education as a critical category of discussion throughout the semester. The major reading and writing of the course will explore the aims of education. In the past, it’s [...]

Well, the summer was short and I find myself back in the classroom with a room of unsuspecting students–eager to learn and to challenge themselves. I love fresh starts. This is what I’ve got planned for my first day in Composition I. First a little “walk in” music, emphasizing the idea of a fresh start and [...]

In the 1950s, William G. Perry developed a model of intellectual development to help understand the “positions” of intellectual and ethical growth that post-adolescent college students go through over the course of their college years. He describes nine different fluid “positions” across four categories: 1) dualism, 2) multiplicity, 3) relativism, and 4) commitment within relativism. When I first learned [...]