Learning From Students

January 1, 2010
As a teacher, I always learn from my students. I've never learned more from a single class than I did last summer in the Humanity In Perspective class. Our readings and discussions centered on varieties of love and the relationship between love and living a good life. I was struck by how unromantic about love these students were compared to my normal classes of 18 to 24-year-olds. Humanity In Perspective students, perhaps like most adult students, come fully prepared to disagree with the prevailing myths of popular culture; or, to put it more positively, I've never felt myself in a group more committed to asking tough questions.

Gretchen Flesher Moon, Ph.D.
Affiliation: Chair, Department of English and Director of the Writing Center Willamette University

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