{"id":305,"date":"2012-08-10T16:45:44","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T21:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/?p=305"},"modified":"2012-08-10T16:45:44","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T21:45:44","slug":"devotion-to-the-subject","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2012\/08\/10\/devotion-to-the-subject\/","title":{"rendered":"Devotion to the Subject"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Devotion to the subject is the one factor which inspires both sound learning and sound teaching.\u00a0 If one is really keen on a discipline, one&#8217;s enthusiasm will usually communicate itself to the students.\u00a0 Even if they do not share it (perhaps because they will find the subject itself dull and repellent) they will at least become aware of the wider possibilities of intellectual adventure.&#8221; Gilbert Highet. <strong><em>The Immortal Profession<\/em><\/strong>. New York, 1976.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gilbert Highet taught classics at Oxford and Columbia for forty years during the mid-twentieth century.\u00a0 Based upon his experience as a professor, this book contains his wisdom on teaching and learning.\u00a0 This quote demonstrates the significant role that\u00a0the teacher&#8217;s passion for the subject plays in the classroom.\u00a0 Professors must model devotion to their discipline for their students.\u00a0 Notice, the professor does not direct his or her devotion primarily to the student but the subject.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Devotion to the subject is the one factor which inspires both sound learning and sound teaching.\u00a0 If one is really keen on a discipline, one&#8217;s enthusiasm will usually communicate itself to the students.\u00a0 Even if they do not share it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2012\/08\/10\/devotion-to-the-subject\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning","category-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions\/307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}