Two for one

It is your lucky day, I get to discuss two class periods in one. Now some of you might be wondering if that means more senseless ramblings...probably not. :) Anyways, I will begin with the visit to Timpview from last Thursday.

It was interesting to be observing at the high school level and to compare it to my previous visits to junior highs. The teachers in high school are focused more on one genre of subjects, rather than the whole gambit. For example, they had a metal shop teacher, a wood shop teacher, an auto mechanics teacher and a drafting teacher. I really enjoyed seeing the projects that can be accomplished with a more focused curriculum.

Tuesday in class we talked a lot about a wide range of things. We had the opportunity to read a talk given by President Hinckley from 1963. It was given to BYU Professors and was entitled "What Shall You Teach?"

I wanted to discuss one point that really stuck out to me. As he was talking about various educations that students need, he brought up an essential education. He said "...there is another education without which the skills they learn may lead only to their destruction. I refer to the education of the heart, of the conscience, of the character--these indefinable parts of our personalities that determine so greatly what we are and what we do." More importantly that just teaching good subjects, is teaching good principles that can be used in the application of those subjects. At a institution like BYU this can be accomplished by closely integrating learning with the gospel. As I have seen this done over the past month and a half, I have noticed in myself a greater desire to learn and succeed. Not just in school, but in life and in the eternities. I am recognizing the eternal implications of all I learn and how I can share that with others.