Saturday, May 14, 2005

The love of teaching

Dr. Glaser spoke at the Excellence in Teaching awards ceremony about the love of teaching that we share at this university. Here is a quote from someone else about love (passion?).

  • Have you seen inside your students?
  • Are you excited about your students beginning their adventure after commencement and you beginning to ignite a new group of students?

"I have the secret to success in life. The secret to success is to stay in love. Staying in love gives you the fire to really ignite other people, to see inside other people, to have a greater desire to get things done than other people. A person who is not in love doesn't really feel the kind of excitement that helps them to get ahead and to lead others and to achieve. I don't know any other fire, other thing in life that is more exhilarating and is more positive a feeling than love is."

Major-General John H. Stanford as quoted at http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/stanford/thoughts/comments1.html