"I tell students on the first day of class that I’ll be talking a lot in the first few sessions, but as we move on, they’ll be talking more and more, and I’ll be talking less. What I try to do is make a self-sufficient community of people who are responsible to one another, who fall in love with one another."
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"For many white voters in the other America, though, stuck in dead-end jobs and low-rent neighborhoods, those comments make them want to say, "But what about me?"
The educated elite — professors, artists, journalists, "expert" commentators — can judge the emotions behind that question as stupid and unfair, even brand them as racist or homophobic. But those feelings of exclusion are very real and not unfounded. As the saying goes, and as last week’s depressing election result clearly demonstrates, we have ignored them at our peril."
But just 170,000 athletes — about 2 percent of those who compete in high school — receive a sports scholarship, according to the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
Many colleges award millions of dollars in athletic aid, touting individual scholarships worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. But the vast majority of athletes get nowhere near that much. For families expecting a return on their investment in their children’s sports, they are in for a surprise.
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"It’s basically a lesson in media literacy for my students that exploded to be something much beyond that."
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- The Professor Is In.Counseling & Mental Health
