the student who choose not be moved

I teach. 

I facilitate learning in a university that's known for its engineering education. Our classes are 10 weeks long. The 11th is reserved for the Finals.

And today is Finals week.

I have checked all the quizzes. Graded their other learning activities. I have seen and read their term papers and it looks like some will breeze through. But some will be given another chance to learn it again.

Some will take that grade with a grain of salt and enter into a resolve, a promise to do better the following term. Some will understandably get angry and blame everybody else except himself and will never learn from the experience.

But some will get creative, as the word on the corridors, and enter to dangerous liaisons with professors to have leverage to negotiate their grades.

Sad.

Is a student still a student when the grades he received are negotiated and not earned? And school still a school?

Do the students see and understand that the worst thing a professor can do to a student is to tell them that they pass when they are not really ready for the next?

Don't they understand that there is a reason why they are not yet supposed to be there? Don't they realized that they are actually putting on the shackles and yoke of insecurity by insisting and negotiating to be in place where they are not yet suppose to be there?

There must be a logical explanation why they do what they do. And I know that that can be perfectly understandable. But is it right? Is it truly beneficial? To them?

Though students move through their curricula because of negotiated grades, in reality they have not moved. Because they choose to stay the same and lie.

The student(s) who choose(s) not be moved :- )

"... why think like mere men?"

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A blessing from a very dear friend, Nards :- )

Joshua 1:1-8

1 After the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, the Lord said to Joshua son of Nun, Moses’ aide: ² “Moses my servant is dead. Now then, you and all these people, get ready to cross the Jordan River into the land I am about to give to them—to the Israelites. ³ I will give you every place where you set your foot, as I promised Moses. ⁴ Your territory will extend from the desert to Lebanon, and from the great river, the Euphrates—all the Hittite country—to the Mediterranean Sea in the west. ⁵ No one will be able to stand against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you. ⁶ Be strong and courageous, because you will lead these people to inherit the land I swore to their ancestors to give them.

⁷ “Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go. ⁸ Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.

Amen :- )

"... why think like mere men?"