Author: Don Morgenson
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A WLU professor’s open letter to parents
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Combined efforts of faculty members and guardians stimulate engaging educational experience
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Staying grateful
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The importance of reflecting positive energy
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Learning patience in a fast-paced world
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We must decrease our need for immediate gratification with the importance of knowledge and responsibility
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Centrality of the Arts
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While studying at the Institute of Psychiatry at the University of London, I also served as a research psychologist at the Maudsley Psychiatric Hospital…
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Ignorant armies
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Interestingly, in the 150 years since Charles Dickens invented then criticized Mr. Gradgrind, with his “facts, facts, facts,” perhaps such hard times are back for Ontario universities?
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The many joys of learning to learn
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As teachers, our chief occupation should be teaching students to how learn.
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A mental trap
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We appear to be a content, somewhat smug people, although we have slipped down on the United Nation’s “Best places to live” scale.
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Gender stereotypes and Valentine love
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It is soon to be Valentine’s Day and the air will be filled with a perfumed, blissful buzz in living rooms, bedrooms and even university classrooms.
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Heather’s story: a disenchanted, ‘silent campus’
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A former student stopped by my office the other day; classes were over and final examinations had yet to begin. I remembered Heather well.…
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Motivated students can succeed anywhere
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Maclean’s issue of celebrated but odious university rankings are always on the newsstands across Canada and while I am happy to see my own…
The Tie That Binds WLU Since 1926
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