Joan
University Writing Professor for Fellowships/Grants Review
What does learning mean? I used to think I had the answer: getting a good liberal arts education. 10 years ago, my class and I were discussing John Henry Cardinal Newman's book about a university education. When a student asked me, "Yes, but what do you think of this chapter?" I fobbed off the question, thinking that the chapter explained my own thoughts. But as it turns out, I hadn't thought deeply about the text at all. I took the text as a given rather than questioning its premises or m...