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Robben Island
I struggle to find the words to describe Robben Island. If it doesn’t sound familiar, Robben Island is in Table Bay, a few miles off Cape Town, South Africa. It has a centuries-long history as a penal colony, and from the mid-1840s to the 1930s it also housed what was known as a leper colony.
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Plus ça change (The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same)
In clearing out my dad’s home office after he passed away, I came across this note. The handwriting is his. Clearly, some things never change. This student in one of my dad’s Philosophy classes in the Fall of 1973 had missed class and gotten behind on the readings. Sound familiar? It seems that my dad
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Legacies
I love a good car. I get my car gene from my dad. My dad passed away in January of this year and I get a lot of my traits – both good and bad – from him. He was a Philosophy professor for decades, and I inherited his commitment to and passion for education.
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The Light (switches) of Knowledge
Are you familiar with the phrase the “lamp of learning” or the “light of knowledge”? In higher education, you often see this in a college seal or motto, or even as a lapel pin. As educators, we believe that learning is powerful, that learning is (or should be) constant, that learning sheds light on the