Learning for school, not for life

Learning for school, not for life

The phrase that unites all of my lecture classes the past few semesters has been, “Will this be on the exam?” Variations come from professors and students alike.  When this phrase plagues our classrooms, I know we have missed the point. Me, you, our teachers. It is not the sole fault of students nor professors or administrators. It is a university-wide forgetting of the goal of an undergraduate education.  The diploma is not the end. The foundat…