March 14, 2008

The Campus as Hometown

By DAVID BOREN

At times in my classes I share with my students references to my own childhood. I grew up in a small, stable town, where the same families had lived for many years. While I didn't always appreciate it when I was younger, adults in our small community looked after other people's children as well as their own. Even minor transgressions on my part reached the ears of my parents before I could confess them myself. So many lessons in life were taught to me in discussions I had with friends who

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