While I’ve Worked On Many

By Nature, I Am Not An Optimist, Though I Try To Act As If I Am.

Part Of The Maturity Of The Sciences Is An Appreciation Of Which Questions Are Best Left To Other Disciplinary Approaches.

A Good Person Is One Who Follows The Ten Commandments And The Golden Rule. There Is Plenty Of Precedent In History To Guide Us And We Probably Evolved To Be Sensitive To Bible-golden Rule Situations. But The Dilemmas Faced By A Worker - A Journalist, An Architect, An Auditor - Or By A Citizen (what Position To Take On Stem Cell Research, Whether To Run For Office, What Is The Proper Balance Between Taxation And Social Nets) - Are Not Questions That Can Be Answered By Traditional Texts Or Precedents.

I Am Knowledgeable Enough About The World Of Prizes To Realize That There Is A Large Degree Of Luck - Both For The Recognitions That You Receive And Those That You Did Not.

I Think That Every Educator, Indeed Every Human Being, Is Concerned With What Is True And What Is Not; What Experiences To Cherish And Which Ones To Avoid; And How Best To Relate To Other Human Beings. We Differ In How Conscious We Are Of These Questions; How Reflective We Are About Our Own Stances; Whether We Are Aware Of How These Human Virtues Are Threatened By Critiques (philosophical, Cultural) And By Technologies (chiefly The Digital Media). A Good Educator Should Help Us All To Navigate Our Way In This Tangled Web Of Virtues.