Revisiting A ‘Grand’ Father’s Day Reflection

A classmate named Allen was my best friend in the early days of high school, so when we had an early dismissal from class one day, it seemed like the ideal time to  Continue reading

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In Search of “Higher” Education, Part 4 ~ Learning to Do … Doing to Learn

Well, I didn’t intend to extend this series this far, but God’s focus on the process of teaching and learning is something I find compelling, and I didn’t want to leave it without  Continue reading

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In Search of “Higher” Education, Part 3 ~ Igniting a Fire, Directing the Flame

Today’s post continues our In Search of “Higher” Education series, and if you missed the last two editions, we invite you to go back and check out Part 1 and Part 2. But there’s much ground to cover here in our third segment, so I’ll  Continue reading

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In Search of Higher Education, Part 2 ~ A Memory Test We’re Failing

In planning this series that we began last week, it hadn’t occurred to me that Memorial Day would be arriving just as we’re getting underway, but it  Continue reading

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Repost: In Search of Higher Education, Part 1 ~ A Place to Start

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In Search of Higher Education, Part 1 ~ A Place to Start

Like many Americans, I’ve been concerned for a long time about the status of “higher education” in our country. What we’ve been seeing and hearing recently from  Continue reading

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