And I concur with Curt's observations as well. While I don't believe I have the only
answers, I have wondered in the last few years if we haven't lost our focus - we are hear
for the students. I have heard in the faculty room "I like to hold a book, not an
eReader, I want to hold a newspaper, I like to handwrite, etc." and I appreciate the
feeling as a nearly 58 year old. But I am often, very often, reminded by the students I
work with and the world in which I live. That I may feel like Socrates, but if I want to
make an impact I must adapt like Plato. (Analogy 2: I may feel like the monastic scribe,
but Gutenberg has arrived.) Students are whom I serve, not myself or my colleagues.
David
Harford Day School
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