"Teach a man to learn"

.Walker Percy once stated something akin to this: "Education is a conversation between a young person and an older one."

In Neil Postman's book, The End of Education, he raises the valid question of why do we educate?  I attempted to answer this question in my final paper for my M.S.Ed. degree.  From research to conversations, it ultimately boiled down to this:

The educated man must be able to T.E.A.C.H.  (Quaint, huh?)

​T - Think discerningly (head)
E - Empathize rationally (heart)
A - Act readily (hands)
C - Communicate effectively (mouth)
H - Hear respectfully (Ears)

For more thoughts on this simple five-finger acronym, visit the Kilns Newsletter section beginning with May 2019 - September 2019.