Connecting Students to Beauty and Wonder

Connecting Students to Beauty and Wonder

In recent years, many of my students have told me they feel bored, anxious, and lonely. Some explain that they often reach for their phones and scroll just to fill the silence. Listening to them, I’ve learned that this habit is not really about killing time; it is their way of outrunning the heavy sense that nothing around them matters.  Recent national data show that students are more bored now than a decade ago, even with endless digital enter…