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LOVE OF LEARNING

As president of one of 12 Vanguard Learning Colleges, I have engaged many individuals both within and outside the college in dialog on where the love of learning fits into the lexicon of our new paradigm. A recent encounter with an old colleague helped galvanize my questions and concerns. The lack of engagement of many students may be due to deficiencies in skills. To the extent they are, we know how to remediate them. The possibility that the issues are more a lack of passion for learning, though, raises much more profound challenges for a learning-centered college. The commoditization of learning, the metaphor of student as customer, and the generally unexplored terrain of the first postmodern generation of students all bear a critical review. More importantly, we need some way to embrace a goal that isn t easily captured in our strategic plans.