IS GOOD TEACHING REALLY APPRECIATED?
The September 16, 2015, issue of The Wall Street Journal provided a wonderful essay by Jason Stevens titled �A Professor Who Put Teaching First.� He writes about one of his professors (Peter W. Schramm of Ashland University) who recently died. I found almost every word to be moving. However, here are two sentences that were really wonderful: �His office was always full of students wanting to tear off a bit of wisdom . . . Schramm taught his students how to think and live well, how to be prudent and judge wisely, how to seek the just and the true.� Words like those were what made me want to become a college teacher way back when I was a young person. For me, kings and presidents could not have a more important and interesting life than Stevens describes. Reading this essay started me thinking. Do students today still talk about their college teachers in such glowing terms? In some ways, the description o...