“We have as of lately, Americans, to our detriment come to love accolades more than genuine achievement.”
As an adult educator in the nursing discipline I “own” the requirement to teach my students to be “caring”. It is the essence of our core philosophy. At the same time, we must be stern, democratic, teach one of the most challenging curriculums, and reamin caring ourselves. Does this mean, “Every student is special?” Because surely there is no ‘special treatment’?
Correct?
Just ‘scholarly accomodation’s to the disadvantaged and ‘special needs’.
Ahem.
I challenge instructors to find that balance. I usually speak to the imbalance of the teeter-totter, but to this concept of caring in education I’m guided by the adage, wisdom of a serpent–gentleness of a dove.
Brandon Rachal 