Pointing fingers
Posted by Mark Winegar on 15th November 2008
The grumpy old vice principal becomes popular when he takes over Gabe’s history class for a day.
Today’s lesson is patience and I’m at the head of the line for instruction.
Its easy to criticize our counterparts on campus. The faculty too easily criticize the administration. The administrative staff envies the “free time” of the faculty. Its just too easy to find fault with others because our observational lenses are myopic. Before long we lose respect for others and they lose respect for us. This is no way to live.
We each have our roles to play in the educational enterprise. We each know our own jobs best. Faculty know how to teach. Administrators know how to do whatever it is they do. I’m faculty so I admit my ignorance of the work day of my Dean or the pressures he has to deal with. I need to trust that he will deal with it to the best of his ability and that should be good enough for me. We need a little more trust in each other.
So in the immortal words of the Youngbloods…
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