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I love learning.\u00a0 I think it\u2019s a result of my radical conversion as an 18 year-old kid.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t a conversion to The Beatles, or to marijuana, or a political party.\u00a0 It was a radical revolution in my heart, started and continued to this very day by the real, live person called Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n
I abhor religion.\u00a0 Let me say it one more time.\u00a0 I abhor religion.<\/strong> I am a renegade for God.\u00a0 That\u2019s exactly what Jesus was.\u00a0 When I looked up the definition of\u00a0 the word, one time, it read \u201csomeone who pushes back against conventional wisdom.\u201d<\/em> And I realized that was me.\u00a0 That was why I loved Jesus.\u00a0 He was a renegade.\u00a0 He challenged conventional wisdom.\u00a0 He believed people should be free, happy, filled with joy and inner peace.\u00a0 He believed that loving people and helping people was the way to change the world and to create the world God had in mind when He created the world.<\/p>\n Sorry, that was a little tirade.\u00a0 I\u2019m a preacher, after all. So because I\u2019ve loved learning, I\u2019ve loved preparing to do my lifelong vocation: speaking for God.\u00a0 Yup, that\u2019s it.\u00a0 That\u2019s what I\u2019ve done since I was actually 18 years old. Who are these people that we call \u201cprofessor?\u201d\u00a0 Think of the word itself: professor.\u00a0 What do you profess?\u00a0 What do you have to profess?\u00a0 Let\u2019s look at our institutions filled with academics who talk about academics all day long, to other academics.\u00a0 People who, a long time ago, forgot what it was like to love to learn, and to love to inspire other people to learn and discover, to be curious, to ask questions.\u00a0 Now all we do is give lectures and administer tests.\u00a0 How sick, how sad.\u00a0 And I\u2019m angry.<\/p>\n So let me challenge you, for those who are professors or teachers:\u00a0 Love it or get out.<\/strong> Have a revival in your soul for the love of learning.\u00a0 Look into the eyes of these students.\u00a0 They\u2019re not just our future.\u00a0 They\u2019re our present.\u00a0 They are the young men and women of America who are coming to you for virtue, for values, for learning, for knowledge and how to apply it in the real world.\u00a0 How do they take what we have handed to them and make something beautiful and majestic out of it?\u00a0 How are they going to learn how to do that if you don\u2019t teach them? Let excited, energetic, enthusiastic lovers of knowledge and truth enter into our high schools\u00a0 and our universities<\/strong> and raise up a brand new generation of men and women who know what it\u2019s like to not only dream and have visions, but to bring old standards and new applications to create the world that will solve the problems that are so big we often think they are insurmountable.\u00a0 They\u2019re not.\u00a0 They can be solved.\u00a0 But not by boring professors teaching boring kids, who are trying to get out to get a boring job, in order to drive a boring car, buy a boring house, marry a boring woman or man, have boring kids and be boring until we all bore each other to death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I love learning.\u00a0 I think it\u2019s a result of my radical conversion as an 18 year-old kid.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t a conversion to The Beatles, or to marijuana, or a political party.\u00a0 It was a radical revolution in my heart, started and continued to this very day by the real, live person called Jesus Christ. I … Continue reading “Who Do You Call Professor?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3219"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=3219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nI\u2019ve passed on this love of learning to my three children.<\/strong> My three daughters all have multiple degrees.\u00a0 My youngest daughter will be finishing her first degree soon. But I have a bone to pick.\u00a0 I\u2019ve sent these beautiful, smart women to universities to learn, and to love learning; to fall in love with lifelong learning.\u00a0 And I think they have that.\u00a0 But what angers me is that they\u2019ve found that love of learning in spite<\/em> of their many professors.<\/p>\n
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\nIf you hate your job and you are a teacher, I invite you to muster up the courage of a gnat and quit.<\/strong> Get out and go do something that can fill you and the rest of the world full of joy.\u00a0 There\u2019s got to be something.\u00a0 You\u2019re smart, you\u2019re good, you know how to pass a test, you know how to do this thing.\u00a0 I give you permission to be set free.<\/p>\n