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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 as well at her sister hospital St. Mary’s of Bethlem (the original “Bedlam”). While my experiences were rich, at times the hospital experience was stressful. Whenever my work tired me, as…
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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. Every teacher has a small collection of memorable students — students to be recalled warmly during the low periods when university teaching seems to be routinized, cluttered with “administrivia,” bled dry…
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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 university ranked competitively with other much larger institutions of higher learning, many of us have wondered about such rankings. Such assessments are flawed in their conception and may have pernicious effects…
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