Academics of the Right Sort

Apologies for the blog delay, it's been a busy few weeks with a TAing assignment switch a few weeks into the semester and working on a paper revision. But enough excuses (though it will be short, it's close to my bedtime).


As I've worked on a paper and led a discussion section earlier today, I was thinking about that citation from Science and Health where Mary Baker Eddy writes: "Academics of the right sort are requisite. Observation, invention, study, and original thought are expansive and should promote growth of mortal mind out of itself, out of all that is mortal." If that isn't a higher mission statement for what we're doing here, then I don't know what is. It reminds me that my job isn't to impart wisdom, to write prolifically, or to earn praise. Its to observe, study, invent, and think that which is progressive, and turns away from old thought models. Thats a standard I can continue to hold myself to, and that I can look for and encourage in my students and colleagues.