{"id":6323,"date":"2016-10-19T12:02:08","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T12:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/?p=6323"},"modified":"2016-10-19T12:06:22","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T12:06:22","slug":"professors-and-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/2016\/10\/19\/professors-and-teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Professors and teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>As teachers we should be committed to conveying truth and<\/h1>\n<h1>wisdom to our students. To give them facts to students and ask them to repeat them<\/h1>\n<h1>is not teaching and it is not education.<\/h1>\n<h1>You might say that a ritualistic approach to education is a disservice to<\/h1>\n<h1>students because it suggests that there is no greater meaning to what they read and write than the numerical grade that they receive. In fact, we should teach in such a manner that it is clear to students that knowledge without<\/h1>\n<h1>ethical commitment and action is like blood in the veins without a beating heart and breathing lungs.<\/h1>\n<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6324\" src=\"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/climate-change-jpf.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"climate-change-jpf\" width=\"300\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/climate-change-jpf.jpg 2500w, https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/climate-change-jpf-300x140.jpg 300w, https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/climate-change-jpf-1024x479.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/climate-change-jpf-768x359.jpg 768w, https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/climate-change-jpf-1536x718.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/climate-change-jpf-2048x958.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1>Nowhere is this problem more evident than in the case of climate change.<\/h1>\n<h1>I talk about climate change in all my classes to some degree and I am increasing forcing myself to bring the topic up with people I meet.<\/h1>\n<h1>Although that requires a certain degree of bravery.<\/h1>\n<h1>More than a little. Two people whom I gave my &#8220;Stop Climate Change&#8221; pins to<\/h1>\n<h1>then proceeded to leave them behind on the table when they left&#8211;never having put them on.<\/h1>\n<h1>But I wonder whether a teacher who never speaks of the ethical responsibilities of the student is playing a role as a teacher.<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As teachers we should be committed to conveying truth and wisdom to our students. To give them facts to students and ask them to repeat them is not teaching and it is not education. You might say that a ritualistic approach to education is a disservice to students because it suggests that there is no &#8230; <a title=\"Professors and teaching\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/2016\/10\/19\/professors-and-teaching\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Professors and teaching\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9296425,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[786],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9296425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}