FOLLOW UP EMAIL
Last week, I sent an email to my students about making good use of their summer. I suggested that they read a book that Bill Gates had recommended in Time magazine, Business Adventures by John Brooks. I was clearly trying to serve in a mentoring capacity by recommending an activity that was never going to be on the students' test. I hope some of them take me up on the assignment. I liked that idea so I posted a short discussion of it on this blog (May 28, 2017). We seem to have difficulty in getting everything covered in a four-year education. We need to find ways to increase what a student can learn during the college experience. Making good use of summer is one place to start. My friend Bob Jensen (retired teaching legend from Trinity University) sent me a note about his own version of this summer assignment. In all honesty, I liked his idea better than I liked my idea. We live in a time when things evolve so rapidly that our student...