Image uploaded from a quicklink (Image by Unknown Owner) Details DMCA | As teachers, I believe our purpose should be twofold: 1) to provide the opportunity for individual self-invention among students, and 2) to create a space where that individual takes on the role and the responsibility of the social citizen... Here is the crux of the matter: As we enter an era of dwindling resources and potential mass migration due to climate change, we are going to need much more empathy--perhaps more than ever before--if we hope to retain our humanity. Empathy must be the measure of our students', and our own, emotional and ethical maturity. (Photo by Steven Errico / Corbis) |