#14 - Respond

So, last blog it is. This semester really flew. It's kind of sad. However, that's not really relevant.


What I really want to talk about it this project that we did. While we worked on it, I realized that I don't really agree with our opinion and neither does the premise behind our class.

Several weeks ago when Dr. Borders took us to Bear Elementary, he said that in dealing with bees he had to change himself in order to change how the bees responded to him. Thinking about that, it never once came up in the project. No one said that in order to change how we are educated and how our professors interact with us we would need to change ourselves. We are living in a society where we expect everyone to adapt to who we are and what we want. However, Jesus never once expected society to change without him first making a statement.

I look back on our class, and it gets me thinking. Jesus did not come to change society by complaining that it was flawed. He came to save it, and in order to do so, he changed himself to be like man. As a result, he has created a more profound impact upon humanity that any other human being throughout history.

We, as students, are a lazy group. Yes, some of us are hard-working, some of us really apply ourselves, some of us reach our potential. At the same time, we don't carry our own weight for the most part. If we decided to respect and cherish the academic authority that our professors have and use their acquired knowledge to expand our own, wouldn't we be better suited to progress on that instead of dumbing ourselves down? Because, who really wants to be the generation that dropped the ball?

Our teachers work hard for us. Its impossible for them to teach to each of our individual learning styles, and if they did we would still find flaws in their methods. Our education is our responsibility. They provide the information, but it is my job to connect with it. I am the one that that information is meant to help. They don't gain anything from telling me things that they already know. 

I guess what my point is that if we want to effect change, we have to start with us. That's what our project was about. That's what this class was about. That's what the gospels were about.

By Jove, I think I got it.